The crimes of corruption and embezzlement committed by public administration officials and managers are becoming a serious problem in China and the latest measure adopted by the government is the installation of GPS systems on official cars. According to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, a government agency tasked with combating abuse and corruption, in 2013 almost 200 service and representative cars were used for private purposes, which have nothing to do with the institutional function for which the cars are intended .
The city of Guangzhou, in the south of the country, has already launched a similar initiative in 2011, making use of the satellite navigation system to control the use that public officials make of the service cars entrusted to them. The result was savings for the municipal coffers estimated at 42 million yuan a year.
President Xi Jinping has often railed against corruption and the crimes of extortion and embezzlement, calling them a deadly threat to the survival of the party, and promised to fight fiercely against the "bad tendencies" of the party cadres and public administration.
Indeed, the lifestyle of many high-ranking officials, even those whose salaries appear modest, is proving increasingly opulent, almost opulent, which is generating growing anger in a public opinion much less disposed today than in the past to an uncritical acceptance of the work of members of the ruling Communist Party.
