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No matter what the topic, it seems that accusations of corruption are never far from the news here in China. In the past few weeks alone, corruption has reared its ugly head in everything from soccer match-fixing and the courts to accident cover-ups and the way funds were apportioned for rebuilding parts of Sichuan following the 2008 earthquake.
It's like an incurable disease. Corruption in China is a major source of frustration among Chinese people. President Hu has called corruption the single most important threat to the power of the Communist Party. Yet the problem seems to be growing.
With corruption cropping up in many areas of society as we've just heard, we asked ordinary Chinese citizens for their views on the topic. Here's what they had to say in today's edition of Straight from the Street.
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China has about 400 million web users, by far the largest in the world. This has also given rise to a strong internet culture that is very particular to this country. One of the most peculiar aspects of this culture is what's known as wangluo hongren, which roughly translates as "internet celebrities".
These are usually people who have become famous online for no fathomable reason. Of course, this phenomenon is by no means confined to China, but just by the power of sheer numbers, anyone who does capture web users' imaginations here can become very famous, very quickly.