China planning chief warns his officials to step up graft fight

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's powerful state planning body the National Development and Reform Commission continues to face a serious issue in tackling corruption and officials must step up efforts to tackle the problem, its chairman was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Speaking to 700 or so current and former employees of the planner earlier this month at a "warning and education meeting", Xu Shaoshi said there were weak risk controls to prevent corruption from happening in his department.