Party unveils a 5-year plan to fight officials’ corruption
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Party unveils a 5-year plan to fight officials’ corruption
The Party yesterday unveiled a five-year plan to fight pervasive graft, with particular attention paid to corruption that triggers protests or happens in the course of economic reforms.
President Xi Jinping has launched a sweeping crackdown on corruption since taking power, pursuing high-flying “tigers” as well as lowly “flies” in the government, military, state-owned enterprises and universities.
The Party’s anti-graft watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said in November it would target all senior officials as part of a deeper war on graft, a problem so serious Xi said it threatened the Party’s survival.
The five-year plan was approved in late August but has only now been released by Xinhua news agency in full.
The commission said the Party faced tests in governing, in reform and opening up and danger from being too distant from the people as well as the danger of corruption.
The Party must “deepen the struggle for Party governance and clean government and fighting corruption to ensure that it always maintains the firmness of its core leadership.”
The lengthy statement only outlines areas that would get particular focus, such as protests and accidents such as mining disasters which happen because of corrupt officials.
“Sternly probe and handle corruption incidents which are behind mass incidents and major accidents where responsibility can be laid,” it said.
About 90,000 “mass incidents” occur each year in China, of which some two-thirds are triggered by disputes over land.
Forced evictions and land requisitions are widely thought to enrich officials at the expense of residents, as the land is often sold to developers for huge profits.
The commission also said the Party would pay particular attention to corruption which happens in the course of economic reforms, which include the reorganization of powerful state-owned industries.
“Sternly probe and handle commercial bribery and increase punishments for giving bribes,” it said.
Xi has not only targeted corrupt practices such as bribe-taking, but also extravagance and waste.
While many of those caught up in the anti-graft sweep have been relatively junior, authorities have begun to take on more significant figures.
Xinhua said yesterday that Li Dongsheng, vice minister of public security, had been stripped of his posts after the Party discipline inspection commission confirmed last Friday he had been put under investigation for serious violations of Party regulations.
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