Check the following article, 

[Growt,  and Corruption in China][1] by Andrew Wedeman.

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>**Rising Corruption and Rapid Growth**
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>Three factors help explain why this was possible. 

>First, corruption was not a serious barrier to the initial acceleration of growth. 

>Second, the most intense period of corruption coincided with large-scale transfers of value from the state to the emerging market economy. 

>Third, despite a somewhat halting start and less than decisive results, China’s anti-corruption efforts managed to bring corruption under control by the early 2000s, albeit without significantly affecting its overall severity. 

>The first two factors combined to create a situation wherein corruption fed off growth rather than stifled it. Even though corruption became much worse than it had been in the pre-reform period, it was kept at levels that are not necessarily extraordinary for a developing economy.

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  [1]: https://www.chinacenter.net/2012/china_currents/11-2/growth-and-corruption-in-china/