BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- China will start a month-long campaign on Thursday to publicly shame officials for neglect of duty and abuse of power.

"We will use the campaign as an opportunity to strengthen ties with the media to fight negligence and power abuse by officials. We will try to find clues from media reporting on official corruption and launch investigations accordingly," said Tong Jianming, spokesman of the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Wednesday.

Over the course of the month, prosecuting organs will publicize findings of the investigations and ways in which the public can report official corruption, he said.

From January 2003 to March 2007, China's prosecuting organs prosecuted 18,200 officials for neglecting their duty or abusing their position. Of these, 12,392 were convicted.