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December 22, 2000 

BEIJING--(AP) - China's top prosecutor has promised to strengthen a crusade against corrupt officials next year, ordering investigators to focus on bribery, the official China Daily reported Friday.

Addressing a meeting of prosecutors on Thursday, procurator-general Han Zhubin pledged better use of high-technology and improved coordination with government agencies to fight corruption, the report said.

Han ordered the nation's 160,000 prosecutors to give priority to cleaning up law-enforcement agencies, particularly by examining bribery, and to police and others who extract confessions by torture, the newspaper reported.

A years-long fight against the widespread corruption that has eroded public confidence in Communist Party rule has quickened in the past year. Two high-level officials have been put to death and police have been openly accused in the state media of abusing power.

Figures released by Han's office, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, show that in the first 11 months of the year prosecutors investigated 43,000 cases of corruption and recovered 3.67 billion yuan (dlrs 442 million), China Daily reported.

Among those investigated were 2,700 officials at the county level or higher, the newspaper said.

In one of the latest examples, the People's Daily reported Friday that a midlevel official in the Ministry of Machine Building, Chen Hongxi, is under investigation for embezzling and misusing 31 million yuan (dlrs 3.7 million) in public funds.