Anti-corruption informants take advantage of new media
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New media is proving to be an effective tool in the war against official corruption and extravagance, data from China’s anti-graft agency shows.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has been expanding channels for the public to blow the whistle on misbehaving officials — it now has a website, a mobile application and an account with popular social networking service WeChat for this purpose.
The CCDI received 128,000 tip-offs via its website and mobile app in 2015, up 13 percent year-on-year, it said in a statement yesterday.
The agency also received 16,000 tips through WeChat after the account was put into operation on January 1.
Based on those reports, the CCDI assigned more than 5,000 cases to inspectors last year, and “a batch” of officials were punished as a result, said the statement, without specifying the exact number involved.
Among them was Wang Cizhao, principal of the Central Conservatory of Music, who was handed a formal warning for taking advantage of his position to hold his daughter’s wedding at the venue.
Other violations spotted by the public included officials dining out and taking personal trips at the public’s expense, and the private use of public service vehicles.
To ensure tip-offs can be made anonymously, whistleblowers using the CCDI’s new media channels receive an automatically generated code they can use to inquire about the handling of their reports.
A large number of the tips, however, are invalid either because they were filed more than once, are too vague, or fall outside the CCDI’s jurisdiction, the statement said.
The CCDI said whistleblowers must provide the violator’s name and work unit, as well as the time and place of the alleged violation.
The commission also encourages informants to take photos of officials’ misbehavior and upload them through the new media channels.
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