 Guanxi offers an efficient information transmission channel to help guanxi members to identify potential and trustworthy partners; it also offers safe and secret platform for illegal transactions.Guanxi norms help buyers and sellers of corrupt benefits justify and rationalize their acts.Li's "Performing Bribery in China" (2011) as well as Wang's "The buying and selling of military positions" (2016) supply essential analyses on how guanxi practice works in corrupt exchanges.