President calls for improving national supervision system to cut down on graft
President Xi Jinping is calling for intensified reform of the national supervision system to improve law-based and procedure-based anti-graft work.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the call while presiding over the group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Dec 13.
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Party and government officials and their families visit an anti-corruption education center in Zaoqiang county, Hebei province. Li Xiaoguo / Xinhua |
Deepening reform of the supervision system is an important step in implementing the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, as well as improving supervision of the Party and the nation, to advance the modernization of State governance, Xi said.
He added that reform of the national supervision system is conducive to fighting corruption under the central and unified leadership of the Party and helps with full oversight of the people who exercise public power.
He called for improving the system, establishing effective mechanisms for checking power and maintaining a strict system of accountability to ensure that supervision covers everyone working in the public sector who exercises public power.
The purpose of supervising the exercise of public authority is to ensure that Party and government officials fulfill their duties, Xi said, adding that misconduct or negligence of duty must be prevented through the supervisory system. Those who have been falsely charged while fulfilling their duty should be protected, he added.
Reform of the national supervision system has made headway since the 19th CPC National Congress, he said. The congress established supervisory commissions at the national, provincial, prefectural and county levels that work together with the Party’s disciplinary inspection commissions as one office. That ensures that supervision covers everyone who exercises authority.
The National Supervision Law was adopted by the National People’s Congress in March.
Since the 19th CPC National Congress, more than 70 senior officials have been investigated by the National Supervisory Commission.
From January to September, around 406,000 officials involved in 464,000 cases that were investigated received punishments, the commission said.
A statement released after a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Dec 13 said the nation’s anti-graft efforts have produced an overwhelming victory and that full, strict governance of the Party has made significant progress.
However, the anti-corruption fight remains challenging and complex, and strict governance over the Party remains a long and arduous task, participants at the meeting said, stressing that strict discipline must be adhered to on a long-term basis.
At the 19th CPC National Congress, Xi vowed to fight graft, saying, “No place has been out of bounds, no ground left unturned and no tolerance shown in the fight against corruption.”
(China Daily European Weekly 12/21/2018 page15)