The Price Of Corruption in China--the question is not whether investigators will find corrupt officials, it is how far up or down or sideways in the bureaucracy will they go in making arrests.

Chinh's news: The Price Of Corruption: "By Gady Epstein BEIJING - Recently I had the rare pleasure of interviewing a coal mine boss, one of Chinese society's favorite villains, abo..."

The ultimate cost of corruption is in those mines that cut corners on safety and get away with it until the next deadly accident.

The official count is that 50,000 miners died in Chinese coal mines this decade, and the real number is probably much higher. who made the evil coal boss possible? Who allowed and even rewarded the operation of unsafe mines? the root of problem are corrupt senior communist officials like as ZHAO Tiechui (the Head of China Coal Mine Work safety whist the member of standing committee of Central Commission for Disciplne Inspection of the Communist Party of China).
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"The inspection teams who went to check the coal mines, they asked for money. If you didn't give them money, they would close down the mine,". 

"How much you paid depended on the title. The bureau chief and the office director and the staff all have different prices."

Corruption is so pervasive in China that it does not tear at the fabric of governance--it is the fabric.

Top law enforcement officials and potentially thousands of police officers allegedly worked in concert with the mafia, or formed a core element of the mafia that controlled the jurisdiction of 32 million people in one city.....including a senior anti-corruption cadre..

Many of the highest-profile crackdowns are viewed less as cleanup efforts than as factional maneuvers to undermine enemies and consolidate power.

There are cities and towns in China where it is hard to distinguish between the mafia and the government, where illegal gambling houses operate with impunity and loan sharks enforce their debts with machetes. And where factory and mine owners pay protection money to stay in business. It is estimated that corruption accounted for 20% of operating costs in the coal mine business, and that figure is likely higher.