Tang Dynasty Combating Official Corruption Countermeasures

Being one of the four civilized old country of the world, China has a five thousand years history. Chinese has created precious wealth of substance and spirit for the world. Being the negative reflections of the factors such as social politics, economy, culture, and morals, the phenomenon of corruption is endangering the health development of society and economy. In the past dynasty of old China, the corruption is rampant, have it to all kinds of government official to the emperor , is acting different corrupt role . The corruption becomes chronic illness of history. But for the regime of consolidating the imperial court, every generation of ruler has begun the arduous anti- corruption struggle again since appearing in corruption. This kind of struggle though had ups and downs never stopped , it started the historical chapter which draws China's anti-corruption in such aspects as system , law , thought.Dynasty Tang developed feudalism to its fullest with a mass of exploration and practice in anti-corruption. Eventually, it came up with a full set of strict legal system. Base on the experience of former dynasties, the legal system established by Tang dynasty is as mature as that of the modern western world. The creative part of the legal system is that it is the first time to define the accusation of "six bribes", which is a breakthrough in Chinese legislation.The bureaucratic supervision system serving as an extremely critical part of Tang's political system is also an effective way to regulate and control the central and local governments, to consolidate the supreme imperial power and to severely beat the corruption. Besides that, the dynast selected capable people for the government based on integrity and distinction.It is unescapable that it falls back into the hand of corruption. The major cause for this is the conflict between courtesy and law in the feudal society. Law usually gives way to Courtesy. The sovereignty surmounts the legislation, which is a big damage to the authority of legislation. The more-than-enough privileges bestowed by the law on the officials set the law itself in trouble.At present, we must recognize the fact that in our party and state organs, corruption are existing and even spreading in some aspects and showing new features such as crime involving groups, involving huge amount of corruption, and make full use of legal means to build a sound legal mechanism Services corruption, carry out anti-corruption struggle, to ensure the effectiveness of anti-corruption objective. Therefore, we should analyze new features and new laws, new trends, new reasons of the phenomenon of corruption and bribery at present, and try to actively research new approaches to minimize the negative factors that give rise to corruption agencies, establishing and improving a mechanism of supervision and control, enhancing the quality of officials in the areas of integrated management and cultivation.Punishment of corruption cannot be finished during one day. To curb corruption has become a political system if the major social and a political problem which the contemporary country confronted with. How to learn the essence of ancient laws and how to improve government mechanisms of our country is a long-term and arduous task.