An article published by Outlook Weekly in 2009 wrote that only by provision of an institutional channel for non-governmental anti-corruption, can the non-government anti-corruption force be better integrated into the overall anti-corruption resource configuration as a renewable resource. A netizen warned that online anti-corruption will not be a long-term solution and without a complete institutional system to rely on, it will probably, sooner or later, become another kind of "Great Cultural Revolution" or online "blind anti-corruption". According to "www.xinhuanet.com", online anti-corruption is forcing the government to update its mechanism in this regard. Task of fighting corruption in China should not rely on "anti-corruption campaign"; while online and institutional anti-corruption activities should coordinate and push together, the latter should still play a leading role. In particular, standardization of the operational procedures of public power should be incorporated so as to prevent corruption. For instance, Guangdong province has carried out pilot program to declare and publicize family property of leading cadres, which is encouraging.
The tide of fighting corruption via micro-blogs is about to become another turning point faced by the Internet ever since the bullet train accident in Wenzhou. Nowadays, combat against corruption via micro-blogs is on a raising trend and urgently needs specifying. General netizens, opinion leaders, as well as traditional media should enhance their self-discipline and make a good use of their discourse power carefully in line with the restraints by law and social conventions. Public will is like flood, which once became unbalanced and overflows, would cause backlash and ultimately result in retrogress of network speech freedom and democracy.
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