Presently in China, there is a theory of corruption says "No Clean Officials". Specifically, it means higher official gets big bribes and lower level officials get the smaller part. Each and every government official will involve in corruption more or less.

When corruption becomes almost a certainty in the society, clean officials live in double anxieties of distrusted by people and extruded by most corrupted officials. Many officials act like this: cursing corruption when not in power, while once come into power, they corrupt much easier than anyone else. Corruption has established a "dye effect", which allows the corrupted to stay more comfortable, and gives the uncorrupted a harder time. As a member of Chinese officials, it's hard to stay clear of corruption.

This indicates the corruption problem in Chinese government is critical now. According to Chinese official statistics, China has 20 million Party and government officials in office. In 20 years there are more than 800 million officials verified with corruption problems and punished by law or Party regulations. Accounting for those not caught for corruption, the actual proportion of corrupted officials has exceeded 2/3, since the verified is only a small part of actual corruption. With such a high percentage of corruption among officials, the corruption in Chinese government has reached another peak. In fact, into the 21st century, the corruption of Chinese party and government officials has come into an unprecedented outbreak period.

Facing amazing corruption, on the one hand, the Chinese communist government makes a louder and louder voice of fighting corruption. Investigate on corruption cases are faster than ever, the number of verified corrupted officials is more than ever, strict sanctions are passed and the government fight corruption harder than any time before. While on the other hand, corruption is growing faster than ever, and corrupted official have a wider spectrum of all kinds of positions, and the amount of money involved increased. The greedy ones are more and more willing to take risk. On the road to combat corruption, there seems to be no progress made in 20 years. Instead, it had lot of problems and came to a dead end.

So what caused corruption? The answer is easy: the fundamental reason of corruption is China's political and social system. The one-party dictatorship in China's is the source of corruption. It is what the corrupted party and government official rely on to survive and development; it is the most fundamental and essential root of corruption. The one-party authoritarian social system decided that Chinese Communist Party and its government monopoly the political and economical resources of China. Therefore the officials of Chinese government and Party have the resources of corruption; The authoritarian system make sure the government and Party officials have absolute control and rights of distribution over social wealth, which create convenience for officials to get corrupted; In authoritarian society, the law was made for the dictatorship of the Party. It serves as apparatus of Party's dictatorial regime. This allows Party leaders and officials to step over the law. The legislation control over the government officials is ineffective; Democracy is the opposite of authoritarian; authoritarian must restrict democracy. The basic symptom of an authoritarian society is no democracy. Without freedom, the people cannot publicly control or watch over corruption. With the poor "self-discipline organizations" which was made up with government officials themselves, it's impossible to watch over tens of millions government or Party officials in China. With all above, how could corruption possibly NOT spread in China?

Therefore, one-party dictatorship and China's social system is the root of corruption of party and government officials. Corruption is inevitable in such social system. The only way to eradicate corruption is to end the one-party dictatorship and establish a democratic constitutional system in China.