Chinese lawmaker proposes national anti-corruption day on Mao´s birthday

Wang's proposal came as other legislators urged for tightened supervision over the use of the country's 4 trillion-yuan (585 billion U.S. dollars) stimulus package, fearing corruption could arise from the massive investment.

The government must prevent corruption in the stimulus projects in an all-round way, by conducting scrutiny over the whole process of the projects and denying those with bribery records access to project bidding, said Chen Yunlong, chief procurator of the People's Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province.

The NPC will focus its supervision work this year on the stimulus package, especially the 1.8 trillion yuan funded by the central government, to ward off fund embezzlement and waste, said Gao Qiang, vice chairman of the NPC Financial and Economic Affairs Committee.

That will be achieved by carefully examine the public spending listed in the government budget to see whether it's in accordance with the need of the economy and people's aspirations, said Gao in a group interview.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday in a government work report China will strengthen its efforts to promote clean government and combat corruption, which "remains a serious problem in some localities, departments and areas."

A total of 4,960 Chinese officials above the county level were punished for corruption in a year ending November 2008.

Editor:Liu Anqi