Preventing corruption

Property declarations by government officials in Altay in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Northwest China, are profoundly important to the crusade against corruption.

Of the 1,064 officials required to declare their assets, 1,056 obliged. Details on the outstanding eight officials have yet to emerge.

Some of the officials were said to have declared their real estate in the autonomous region's capital Urumqi or elsewhere.