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Purpose: analyzing ethical grounds for combating corruption in the PRC public service system and identifying the correlation of moral, ideological, and administrative-legal principles in the Chinese anti-corruption model. Unlike systems based solely on formal legal rules, the Chinese approach relies on official virtue formed under Confucian tradition and socialist ideology, determining the balance of party discipline and legal responsibility. Methods: comparative legal method, historical and legal analysis, institutional approach. Results: differences between Chinese and Russian models regarding ideological basis, nature of control, official ethics, and proceduralization indicate a distinct ethical-legal regulation of public service in China. Implementation of the 2003 UN Convention against Corruption shows that ethical principles perform a normatively significant function within a synthesis of tradition, ideology, and centralized control. Discussion: conceptualizing the Chinese anti-corruption experience as a system where official virtue (in historical, cultural, ideological, institutional, and international dimensions) gives disciplinary supervision and legislation a socially grounded and value-oriented character.