A draft amendment to Criminal Law has been submitted to China's top legislature, the National People's Congress Standing Committee, for the first hearing, aiming to intensify crackdown on gambling and commercial bribes.

According to the amendment draft of the Criminal Code, work staffs in hospitals and medical organizations, who take or accept bribes in the process of purchasing medicines or promoting new medicines, will be taken as committing crimes of commercial bribery and be given up to five years or more than five years in prison apart from varying amounts of fines in accordance with severity.

Previously, only work staffs in companies or enterprises, who take bribes, were regarded as committing commercial bribery crimes.

(Source: Xinnhua)