Recent anti-corruption legal reforms in China

This paper overviews three major anti-corruption legal reforms in China: the enactment of the National Supervision Law in 2018, the establishment of a specia l proceeding of confiscation of illegal gains in the 2012 Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) amendment, and the introduction of “trial in absentia” in the 2018 CPL amendment, as well as the ongoing pilot reforms on corporate compliance non-prosecution.