This week it was announced that two vice mayors and senior Party officials in the cities of Suzhou and Hangzhou in eastern China had been executed for corruption, in one case for stealing over US$22mn.

With recent arrests in China's nuclear regulators and railways ministry is there a major crack down and 'strike hard' camapign ongoing against corruption in China and does this camapign mean there will be more high profile executions of senior officials in the future?