A Research on the Status Quo of the Rent-seeking Corruption in the County

The corruption of government organizations and its officials is a negative but universal social phenomenon. It is of sig-nificance to prevent and curb the corruption of government officials and build a clean government. The main cause of corruption in current local government is government officials' setting rents and seeking rents, which is called rent-seeking corruption. The rent-seeking corruption of local government accompanies power operation, and has its own characteristics. This article taking the corruption case happened in a north county of Jiangsu Province during the years of 1999-2006 as a sample, analyses the causes of rent-seeking corruption, and proposes a countermeasure to curb this corruption by setting up new official institutions and making a good improvement about nonofficial institutions, from the perspective of both economic agents and moral agents.