ABSTRACT
Campaigns against corruption - moral, political, as well as economic - are nothing new in the People's Republic of China (PRC). However, it would appear that the leadership of both the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) developed an increased concern with corruption during 1993. In December 1992 the CCP's Central Commission for the Inspection of Discipline (CCID) held a conference in Shenzhen to ex mine 'Theory and Practice in the Struggle against Corruption', 1 which set the agenda for the following year. Zhang Siqing, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procurate reported on the results of the campaign against corruption during the first half of 1993; 2 and at the end of August Jiang Zemin delivered a major speech on the subject at the second plenum of the CCID of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the CCP. 3 Specifically within the PLA the various concerns about corruption were echoed by Liu Huaqing and Zhang Zhen, Vice Chairmen of the Central Military Commission, in July when they emphasized that 'we military comrades do not live in a vacuum' and were not immune from 'the various harmful trends and negative tendencies that have found their ways into and endanger our army'. 4
