Graft probes leave province 300 short
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A CORRUPTION crackdown in north China’s Shanxi Province has left the government with almost 300 jobs to fill, including several senior positions.
Coal-rich Shanxi has emerged as one of the frontlines in President Xi Jinping’s battle against deep-seated graft, with Vice Premier Ma Kai earlier this month describing the problem there as “like a cancer.”
Shanxi’s top official, Party boss Wang Rulin, said there were nearly 300 vacancies in the provincial government, including three city Party chiefs, 16 county Party chiefs and 13 county heads, Xinhua news agency said.
The province punished 15,450 officials in 2014, including seven from the top leadership, the report said.
The government and the Party can find it hard to fill posts.
Xinhua said that Shanxi had managed to appoint several senior officials to help plug the gap. It said that this was “a major step in rebuilding the province’s corruption-plagued officialdom.”
The appointments include several city officials and county heads in the provice’s Luliang City, as well as officials in the province’s transport department, according to an announcement by the provincial government.
The appointments were the first of their kind after the installment of the province’s new party leadership last September, Xinhua reported.
President Xi has vowed to take down high-flying “tigers” as well as lowly “flies” in an ever widening war against graft.
Shanxi, as one of China’s top coal producing provinces, has seen its economy boom on the back of soaring energy demand over the past decade, one of the reasons for its pervasive corruption problem.
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