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Party is committed to fight corruption

Source: Xinhua/Shanghai Daily | March 2, 2014, Sunday | Online Edition

China means it in severely punishing corrupt officials, no matter who he is and what position he holds, said a spokesman on Sunday.

Lu Xinhua, spokesman with the session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, made the remark in response to a question from the South China Morning Post about the country's former domestic security chief.

Zhou Yongkang was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Party's Central Committee and held the post of security overlord until he retired in 2012.

Zhou has been put under virtual house arrest while the Party investigates accusations of corruption against him, Reuters reported.

Zhao was last seen at an alumni celebration at the China University of Petroleum on October 1. The Party has yet to make a formal announcement on his fate, and speculation has swirled about him, especially in Hong Kong.

Asked about Zhou, the spokesman for the top advisory body to parliament, whose annual session opens on Monday, said he had also seen media reports about Zhou."

As a matter of fact my source of information about this is also the handful of media organizations as you mentioned, so I will try to answer your question in this way," Lu told reporters.

Lu said that the government was committed to fighting corruption, no matter where it occurred."

We have investigated corruption cases involving Chinese Communist Party leading officials including high ranking officials," he added."

We are doing this to demonstrate to the whole party and the whole society that when we see that anyone violates law and party discipline they will be investigated and dealt with severely, and no matter whom they are or what their position is, we mean it. This is all I can say. That's the way it is."

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