China anti-graft website crashes on too many hits
A Chinese government website encouraging citizens to report corruption crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits.
By Agencies |
BEIJING: A Chinese government website encouraging citizens to report corruption crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits.
China’s National Bureau of Corruption Prevention, formed in September after a string of high-profile scandals involving government officials, launched its official website on Tuesday. By afternoon, the website could not be opened, the Beijing Youth Daily said. It quoted an official as saying that the “number of visitors was too large”.
The website was up later on. On Wednesday morning, the website was again down for a while. China will draft a five-year plan to tackle corruption, the official People’s Daily said in a separate report, citing notes from a meeting of the country’s decision-making politburo on Tuesday.
China has called on citizens to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in business and government, but investigators struggle to rein in officials who permit little direct oversight and do not have to answer directly to the public.
China’s National Bureau of Corruption Prevention, formed in September after a string of high-profile scandals involving government officials, launched its official website on Tuesday. By afternoon, the website could not be opened, the Beijing Youth Daily said. It quoted an official as saying that the “number of visitors was too large”.
The website was up later on. On Wednesday morning, the website was again down for a while. China will draft a five-year plan to tackle corruption, the official People’s Daily said in a separate report, citing notes from a meeting of the country’s decision-making politburo on Tuesday.
China has called on citizens to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in business and government, but investigators struggle to rein in officials who permit little direct oversight and do not have to answer directly to the public.
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