Hooray for the Shanghai Daily, as reported in China Daily, for pressing against corrupt officials:

China has to find a way to make disobedient and defiant local officials
accountable to the public interest if there is ever going to be real social
harmony.

     The story goes on to recount how thousands of local officials are flaunting central government regulations against investing in illegal coal mines.  The local officials run the mines, exploit workers (many of whom die in the awful conditions) and use their political positions to shield themselves from the law.  The writers go too easy on the central government, which should work against the abuses more strenuously, but they call for more media attention and more regulation and they shine a light on corrupt local officials.

     They are also invoking the central government’s Confucian-esque langauge of creating a "harmonious society."  In essence, the story is saying that if the powers-that-be are serious about living Confucian morality (and it is not at all clear that they are all that serious) then they have to do the right thing by the poor and powerless.   And that sounds right to me.