Officials to be ‘named and shamed’
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CHINA is to name and shame officials in central Party and other government departments guilty of disciplinary violations on a regular basis during its ongoing anti-graft drive.
Such cases, complete with names, positions, places of work, violation details and punishments, will be made public via newspapers, radio, TV, the Internet and other mass media, according to a trial regulation released by the Work Committee of Central Government Departments under the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee.
“Although misconduct has been somewhat reigned in, central Party and government departments are not a pure land and disciplinary violations still occasionally occur. Situations have become even worse in some departments,” said Yu Guilin, a senior work committee official.
Yu said corruption is spreading from specific sections holding power over money, resources and projects to general units. In some places, corruption was “systematic and a group activity.”
Figures showed there was a year-on-year increase of 55.7 percent last year in Party members receiving disciplinary punishments.
According to the regulation, serious actions violating political and organizational discipline as well as wrongdoings by disciplinary officials should be exposed, while exposing lesser cases is optional.
However, cases involving Party and state secrets are exempt from such exposure.
The regulation aims to intensify the impact of public exposure that had been weakened as officials covered up cases that should have been reported and toned down case details for exposure for fear of offending the officials and departments in question.
“Case exposure is better than a thousand words and the most vivid form of discipline and work-style education. It incites fear in violators and also serves as a warning for potential wrongdoers,” said Yu.
Meanwhile, a new wave of anti-corruption inspections has begun into 26 state-owned companies.
The companies, mostly energy and telecom giants, include China National Nuclear Corp, China National Petroleum Corp, China Electronics Technology Group Corp, China National Machinery Industry Corp, China Huaneng Group, State Grid, China Mobile and China Telecom. Many are among the world’s top 500 companies.
Inspectors from the Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection will be based at the companies for about two months. They will check the firms’ operational procedures and handle complaints and petitions, especially those concerning the implementation of Party discipline, the central authorities’ frugality campaign and the promotion of officials, the commission said yesterday.
It has completed five rounds of inspections since the Party’s 18th National Congress in late 2012, exposing corruption at a number of state-owned enterprises and government departments.
In the latest inspection results, published last month, inspection authorities said China Unicom officials had colluded with contractors or suppliers and abused their power to seek money or sex.
The Shenhua Group was also described as having manipulated power in the coal trade to gain “black gold.”
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