Is This China's Second Most Powerful Person?

China's Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Qishan, the head of China's anti-corruption watchdog, attends the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, March 5, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Reuters: China top graft buster says corruption fight 'world class hard'

BEIJING (Reuters) - Fixing the corruption problem in China’s ruling Communist Party is “world class hard” and the battle will never end, the country’s top graft-buster told Singapore’s prime minister in a rare meeting with a visiting foreign leader.

Wang Qishan, who heads the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, has been at the forefront of President Xi Jinping’s fight against deep-seated corruption, and speculation has swirled about whether he will retire or stay on at next month’s key party Congress.

Meeting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the central leadership’s Zhongnanhai compound in Beijing, Wang said the party’s anti-corruption campaign and efforts to supervise itself had been highly effective.

“Carrying out an operation on yourself to cure an illness is world class hard,” the commission cited Wang as saying, in a statement late on Wednesday.

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WNU Editor: I like what one of my Chinese business friends told me last year .... if you get a call from his office, you better put your personal affairs in order. He is President Xi's hammer when it comes to his opponents, and my prediction is that he will stay in his position for the next year or two. As for Chinese corruption .... I was never personally impacted by it, but I can write a book on what I have seen over the past 30 years.