Zeng Youxiang

　　School of Law, South China University of Technology

　　Abstract:Commercial bribery makes up a high proportion of all corruption involving public functionaries in China. As such, it must be a present and future focus of the fight against corruption. In order to better achieve the objective of restraining public power, we should adjust the criteria for what constitutes the crime of corruption and the content of the specific assessment of this crime in Chinese criminal law in the light of the characteristics and new manifestations of commercial bribery, with a view to combating it more effectively.

　　Keywords: commercial bribery, criminal regulations, recasting of mechanisms