1,500 Sign Petition Urging Financial Transparency from Communist Leaders NTDonChina

Petitions to Chinese authorities are often left unanswered. But this man is hoping this time will be different.

Sun Hanhai is an ordinary Chinese citizen. But he's one of a handful organizing a petition to the top 205 leaders of China's ruling Communist Party. Their request? Make the leaders tell the public exactly how much wealth they have.

[Sun Hanhai, Petition Organizer]: (Male, Mandarin)
"Making officials disclose their assets would be a means of wider public supervision. If they put their property out in the open, then it would be impossible to hide. To ensure development, they must disclose their assets."

So far more than 1,600 Chinese academics, activists and professionals have signed. But organizers are hoping to get a million by March. That's when the new generation of Communist leaders assume their government roles under the People's Republic of China.

Party chief, and president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, has spoken harshly against corruption. It's rampant in China. Officials exposed are increasingly higher profile, and public outrage more prominent.

[Song Shiquan, Financer in Beijing]:
"The common people are disgusted by the corruption of officials. If they don't solve this problem, it will hurt the country's development."

[Cui Xiaowen, Beijing Resident]: (Female, Mandarin)
"The highest level of senior officials doing it would have the most impact. Above all, they are the top senior officials so they should set an example, right?"

Chinese netizens have used Twitter-like microgblogs such as Sina Weibo to uncover evidence of corruption on their own. In September, an official from Shaanxi was fired after web users dug up photos of him wearing over 10 different luxury watches.

But the biggest scandal came with ousted Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai. Though several allegations have been leveled against him, the charges Party investigators are likely to focus on his massive corruption and abuse of power.

Sun says if leaders take this petition seriously, it'll help to ease the tension between authorities and the public. It'll also reduce the tens of thousands of petitioners who go to Beijing each year—often because of corruption and mistreatment by officials.

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1,500 Sign Petition Urging Financial Transparency from Communist Leaders
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