Kurakin A.V., Polukarov A.V., Sukharenko A.N. The Chinese experience of fighting corruption: administrative and criminal legal means

Abstract: The article focuses on the issues of combating corruption in China. The article notes that corruption is a system threat to the security of many countries, including the People's Republic of China. The article contains the analysis of anti-corruption articles of the Criminal code of China (1997), and the status and dynamics of fighting corruption in this country using legal and administrative means. The importance of this issue is based on the fact that at present corruption causes deep concern. The authors ground the necessity to strengthen all the legal measures of fighting corruption in the implementation of the national anti-corruption plan taking into account the Chinese experience in this sphere. It is proposed to develop anti-corruption legislation, which will contribute to a more effective struggle against this phenomenon and strengthen the preventive function of administrative law.The methodological basis comprises the recent achievements in epistemology. The authors apply general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional legal methods (formal logical), and the methods used in specific sociological studies (statistical, expert evaluation, etc.).The main conclusion of the study runs that at present, in order to ensure legality, it is necessary to improve forms and methods of combating corruption using administrative legal and criminal legal means. The main contribution of the authors is the conclustion about the necessity to develop legal regulation of fighting corruption. The novelty of the article lies in the proposals about the development of forms and methods of fighting corruption based on the experience of China.

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