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.

In the past few decades China’s aviation industry has grown to become one of the largest in the world. Yet it has continued to be tainted by scandal. Most recently the industry was left shaken after a large number of top officials from the Civil Aviation Administration of China and several major State-owned airlines were arrested or placed under investigation for corruption. BON’s Kelda Yuen shines a light on the situation in a phone interview with Chinese aviation expert- Zhang Qihuai.

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This is the local government office in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region where a local man burned himself to death last week. According to his family, Ruan Guangrui, a farmer from the rural area of Dongsun near Baise City, committed suicide outside the gates of the district government to protest at grass-roots corruption.

His widow, Deng, said the 49-year-old was angry that officials refused to listen to their complaints about graft.

"It's all because of his report on the corruption case. He said he wanted to use his death to draw the attention of the authorities. He wasn't able to sleep for a month, turning the case over and over in his mind. The report was submitted to the local police department, but it was dismissed."

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