Xi Jinping after being elected as the General Secretary of CCP in 2012, vowed to crackdown on corruption, a strategy which is referred to as “killing tigers and swatting flies” where tigers are the powerful and flies are the petty officials. This campaign turned out to be one of the largest campaigns against corruption. PRC has always taken official corruption seriously. Despite continuous crackdowns, China’s ranking in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index and World Bank’s control of Corruption Indicator has not improved much, which signals that corruption in China is still a serious problem. In Contrast, the two other Chinese societies, Hong Kong and Singapore have done an excellent job of controlling corruption. This paper focuses on the anti-corruption institutions in China, Hong Kong and Singapore and their anti-corruption strategies too. The paper regards Quah’s “Key ingredients to a successful anti-corruption strategy” as a necessary if not sufficient factor for controlling corruption. The paper compares the case of China, Hong Kong, and Singapore and tries to find out if the anti-corruption strategies of these countries possess Quah’s “Key ingredients” and at the same time also tries to withdraw lessons which could help China in improving its way of combating corruption.
