The Communist Party leaders of China have been trying to figure out where corruption has started and so they decided to launch an anti-graft campaign resulting in school principals being investigated in order to bring down any offender.

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According to the Xinhua News Agency, school principals are being taken down because some of them have been taking bribes during the past year. There are a total of seven school principals from the city of Shenzhen currently under investigation.

The news agency pointed out that one of those charged was identified as Lu Jingfeng, a former principal who is the party secretary of Shenzhen's Vocational School of Technology. Lu is also a winner of numerous awards such as the "National Outstanding (Communist) Party Worker Award".

The Discipline Inspection Commission said that Lu cannot be reached for any comment but a teacher at the said school said that Lu is indeed being investigated and is no longer working for the school.

Most principals being subjected to the investigation have been accused of taking bribes that amount to hundreds of millions of yuan. One of the former principals was behind bars for 10 years for taking 210,000 yuan.

The report added that the most common factor for taking in bribes had to do with school admissions when principals took in students who are not qualified in the school. However, offering Principals cash in exchange of admitting a student has been a practice for urban Chinese parents. Most of these parents are those that want to enroll their children in high-quality schools.

The news agency added that kickbacks by principals may also come from construction projects and contracts for equipment and cafeteria food. Missing funds are said to be supposedly spent on the meals of the students but instead, they are used to be added to the salary of principals. 

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