Corruption tops concerns list
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March 3, 2010, Wednesday
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DURING this year's Lunar New Year holiday, police officers in a county in central China's Henan Province were especially cautious when celebrating with mining and entertainment bosses.
Their wariness was caused by police department rules issued earlier this year forbidding police officers from developing "overly close relations" with company heads, participating in mining management or providing illegal protection.
Officials who broke the rules would be removed from their posts or transferred out of the police department.
"One officer has already been removed from his post for breaking the rules," said officer Chen Mingzhou in the police department of Mianchi, a county with rich mining sources.
"We discovered that some officers used their powers to participate in mining and entertainment management businesses and provided illegal protection for those businesses," said Chen.
According to a survey conducted by People's Daily Online last month ahead of this week's annual legislative session, the National People's Congress, corruption came top of this year's "most important issues."
The results showed that 70 percent of some 200,000 people who took part in the survey considered corruption among cadres at county level "most serious."
Huang Zongliang, a Peking University politics professor, said "rampant corruption at the lower level directly weakens people's confidence in government."
Many local governments were trying to implement new anti-corruption measures in a positive way, he said.
Discussions over the creation of a system to record officials' property triggered nationwide debate early this year.
In Xinjiang's Altay region such a system had been in effect for a year.
Salaries, bonuses, stocks and securities, among other income, must be declared in the region.
Statistics show that officials voluntarily handed over illegal earnings worth more than 760,000 yuan (US$111,000) after the system was implemented.
"In recent years, China has been putting much effort in to constructing anti-corruption systems and releasing a series of pertinent policies and regulations," Huang said.
"China should continue to systematically come up with new measures in order to promote inner-Party democracy and 'people's democracy.' And that is the essence of how to stop corruption," he said.
Their wariness was caused by police department rules issued earlier this year forbidding police officers from developing "overly close relations" with company heads, participating in mining management or providing illegal protection.
Officials who broke the rules would be removed from their posts or transferred out of the police department.
"One officer has already been removed from his post for breaking the rules," said officer Chen Mingzhou in the police department of Mianchi, a county with rich mining sources.
"We discovered that some officers used their powers to participate in mining and entertainment management businesses and provided illegal protection for those businesses," said Chen.
According to a survey conducted by People's Daily Online last month ahead of this week's annual legislative session, the National People's Congress, corruption came top of this year's "most important issues."
The results showed that 70 percent of some 200,000 people who took part in the survey considered corruption among cadres at county level "most serious."
Huang Zongliang, a Peking University politics professor, said "rampant corruption at the lower level directly weakens people's confidence in government."
Many local governments were trying to implement new anti-corruption measures in a positive way, he said.
Discussions over the creation of a system to record officials' property triggered nationwide debate early this year.
In Xinjiang's Altay region such a system had been in effect for a year.
Salaries, bonuses, stocks and securities, among other income, must be declared in the region.
Statistics show that officials voluntarily handed over illegal earnings worth more than 760,000 yuan (US$111,000) after the system was implemented.
"In recent years, China has been putting much effort in to constructing anti-corruption systems and releasing a series of pertinent policies and regulations," Huang said.
"China should continue to systematically come up with new measures in order to promote inner-Party democracy and 'people's democracy.' And that is the essence of how to stop corruption," he said.
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