Corruption and anti-corruption are a long-standing social phenomenon in human history. In particular, since the second half of the twentieth century, corruption has emerged as a malignant disease outbreak, threatening the economy, culture and morals of mankind, with great devastating and preventing the development of the nation. In this article, the author gives an overview of the situation, scale and harms of corruption to the development of society; in the fight against corruption in recent years in our country. According to the author, the effectiveness of the fight against corruption in our country is not high because the dosage of anti-corruption measures is still not strong enough, not aiming to win a breakthrough. That breakthrough, as the author thinks, is to strictly punish corrupt people, especially those who are party members - officials.