Pictured above is the largest government-funded housing project in terms of its construction area in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. A total of 2,349 Communist Party of China (CPC) officials were involved in illegal property activities over affordable housing in 2011 according to a joint statement released Monday by the Ministry of Supervision and the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). (Photo/Xinhua)

China's anti-graft experts urged authorities to publicize the details of illegal possessions and trades on affordable houses that Party officials engaged in after the Party and government authorities released the actual number of guilty officials on Monday.

A total of 2,349 Party officials were involved in the violations this year, according to an official statement jointly released by the Ministry of Supervision and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China.

Around 6,398 sets of houses constructed for low-income families were illegally traded or possessed by these officials, according to the statement, which did not reveal how they have been punished.

Lin Zhe, an anti-corruption expert at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, told the Global Times on Tuesday she was not surprised at all over the number of Party officials involved.

It is indeed difficult to keep track of all Party members in China, which totaled over 80 million last year, and therefore very hard to prevent them from taking advantage of their official posts for their own private means, according to Lin.

Lin called for publicizing the officials’ names, the reasons behind their illegal possessions or trades of government-funded housings, along with the profits they reaped, and the punishment they will receive.

"Publicizing the details of their violations and punishment allows for the public to keep an eye on the implementation results," Lin said.

It is believed that the number of officials who take part in illegal home-related activities would decrease if the authority publicized the names of the Party discipline-breaking officials as they would feel shameful once exposed to the public, according to Lin.

Wang Xiaodong, a scholar on China-related issues in Beijing, echoed Lin's words and added that the major problem of the anti-graft campaign lies within ineffective crackdowns.

"It’s not that we don’t have the measures to follow, it’s just that we don’t implement them strictly," Wang told the Global Times.

The undisclosed details of the violating officials have triggered increasing public doubt on future corruption crackdown efforts by the government.

A survey conducted on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like service, indicated that 2,222 respondents, 74 percent of the total as of Monday, showed no confidence in China's future anti-graft campaign efforts over the next five to ten years. Only 22 people out of the 2,994 polled said they are very confident of the government’s anti-corruption efforts.

However, Lin also said an increasing number of officials are gradually realizing they should not abuse their power.

Some 44,150 Party officials voluntarily handed in 386 million yuan ($61 million) in goods and money that were sent to them in the form of bribes, according to the joint statement from the Ministry of Supervision and the CCDI.