CONSTRUCTION FRAUD CRACKDOWN

(0108 CR M11)CONSTRUCTION FRAUD CRACKDOWN DATELINE: Jan 8, 2011 LENGTH: 00:01:08 VO A national crackdown on China's booming construction industry has found tens of thousands of instances of faulty work. In many cases faulty building work in China has led to deadly consequences. Friday, officials said a total of 15,600 corruption cases were uncovered in government-funded engineering projects last year. The details of more than 5,100 people involved in the cases have been handed over to judicial authorities. The government then ordered nationwide inspections to go through all government-sponsored construction projects with an investment of more than 740,000 U.S. dollars. It found about 210,000 problems - ranging from poor quality of construction projects to bribery. The Commission didn't give specific details about the problems, but claimed nearly three quarters of them have now been addressed. Faulty building work is a problem in China. For example, in July 2009, a 13-st Powered by www.newslook.com Producer : Xinhua News Agency