A Comprehensive Chronicle of Modern Society: Heaven Testifies

Author: Liu Yangchun
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Corruption is called the "global gray plague." No country can escape its shadow. The 7th International Anti-Corruption Conference was held in Beijing in October 1995. The conference revealed that, on a global scale, conservative estimates suggest that losses due to corruption have reached $50 billion, and 20%-50% of the world's trade volume is used for bribery. Administrative corruption destroys the government's fair image in the eyes of the public, while judicial corruption undermines the "normative" concept of the entire society. Once norms are lost, society loses its direction—where are we heading?