The problems of corruption have been found that hinder competitiveness externally and internally. Not only do they have a negative impact on national development, but also affect the trust of society because of weakening social cohesion. Therefore, ma... The problems of corruption have been found that hinder competitiveness externally and internally. Not only do they have a negative impact on national development, but also affect the trust of society because of weakening social cohesion. Therefore, many countries in the world realize that it is the priority to solve corruption problems through joint cooperation. Although the economic development of China has been promoted rapidly after the reform and opening up, the spread of public official corruption in all areas of society is giving a negative impact on national development and social integration. So it seems to be urgent to solve the problem of the corruption of public officials. According to a of the Social Sciences Law Institute of the Chinese Academy in 2014, an average of more than 500 civil servants receive an investigation everyday. In addition, the Procuratorial Institutuon of China has dealt with 27,235 cases of corruption from January to September in 2014 and the number of accomplices is up to 35,633. Each corresponding figure rises by 9.9% and 5.6% from the same period last year. It is a fact that official corruption is a serious social problem now in China. This study is intended to master the status, problems, improvement aspects of Chinese official corruption, and identify the approach of preventing corruption by the perception of corruption targeting the lower-layers of public officials, whose corrupt practices occur widely. Specific research question follow. First, what is the status of corruption which the lower-layers of civil servants recognize? Second, what is the cause of corruption? Third, what is the effective improvement program to reduce corruption? These three questions have been presented. To settle these research questions, the questionnaire responses of 150 civil servants working in Beijing were collected. The method of collection was to build and open an online survey. This was opened and made available for the civil servants to complete from 12 October to 5 November, The collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 21.0. The results are as follows. First, a very important factor among the causes of corruption in individual aspects can be seen as the will of public officials. The punishment and monitoring system would help to prevent corruption, but the priority is to establish awareness of the integrity of civil servants. Therefore there is a need to enhance the awareness of integrity by implementing a training program on public ethics, and increase the sense of achievement by improving the remuneration system. In particular, it is most appropriate that education and training programs be routinely implemented to help prevent public officials from getting involved in corruption. Second, in the institutional aspect, to reduce the cases of corruption, it is clear to improve anti-corruption laws and institutions. Accordingly, the amendment and improvement of uncompleted corruption accusations and investigation systems could be an institutional solution. In addition, it is also necessary to promote the rationalization of personnel incentive schemes in order to ensure the fairness of personnel, and the replacement system of work department should be prepared. In particular, the protection of whistle-blowers in the process of implementation of whistleblowing schemes. The reason is that honest public servants with integrity could be victims of acts of revenge perpetrated by civil servants caught in corruption. Therefore, it is certainly necessary to ensure the safety and honor of all public officials who accuse other civil servants of corruption through the enactment of protection laws of whistleblowers. Third, in socio-cultural aspects, socio-culture is generated among the most common life. Different cultures of the group of public officials have been formed within the framework of these socio-cultural. Thus, there is a need to form a social atmosphere of criticizing the corruption through anti-corruption education and publicity. Particularly, it is also necessary to strengthen the education and publicity about risks of civil servants corruption to make all of society become aware of the importance of anti-corruption projects. Because the conditions and infrastructure of all the people who are to pay the strength to fight corruption must be created. Furthermore, the idea of regarding corruption as disgrace and dishonour should be established by institutionalizing anti-corruption education. It is useful to widely spread the negative impact of corruption by the means of newss, magazines, TV, SNS and so on. But there have been several limitations, so this study intends to present some proposals for future research. First, it will be impossible to draw a generalized conclusion because this study only has been conducted regarding the lower-layer public officials working in H District of Beijing of China as the object of the research. Consequently, it is proposed that the samples and areas of research should be wide when researching the corruption of public officials in the future in order to a generalized improvement scheme will be obtained. In addition, because of the sensibility of the corruption, the lower-layer officials may not answer the questionnaire survey objectively. Therefore, we also need to conduct a study regarding common people as the research subjects. Second, the number of respondents with low educational background is quite limited and not that big. Therefore, if similar research is conducted in the future, there is a need to increase the number of research subjects to obtain specific and practical results. Third, this study has come up with improvements of anti-corruption in theory. But it does not mention how these measures will be specifically, practically proceeded. So the future research should be professionally completed to draw specific improvements.
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