‘Strong remedies’ to cure graft
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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping yesterday urged discipline officials to adopt a zero tolerance stance on corruption, saying “strong remedies must be continuously used to cure the illness.”
Xi made the remarks at the fifth plenary session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China.
He urged discipline officials to hold corrupt officials accountable for their actions, strengthen responsibility for the building of the Party at all levels and further improve systems.
Efforts to rectify the four undesirable work styles of formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance, which were listed by the Party in its “mass line” campaign that ended last October, should continue, Xi said.
He called for further development of long-term mechanisms and strengthened supervision.
Misconduct, Xi said, must be dealt with accordingly and a zero tolerance attitude to corruption must be taken at all times.
“Our determination to use strong remedies to cure illness will not change. Our courage to rid our bones of poison will not diminish. We will also continue to hold the sharp sword of counter-corruption high,” Xi added.
Xi told the Party to do a better job of supervising state-owned enterprises.
“The state-owned assets and resources, which are hard-earned, are the shared wealth of the people of this country,” he said. The Party’s control of such enterprises should be intensified and the supervision of SOE bosses strengthened.
Supervision of departments and positions with large amounts of power, money or resources should receive special attention, he said, along with discipline inspection itself and auditing.
The intra-Party supervision system should be improved, he said, starting with revision of Party regulations, such as the ethics code for cadres and regulations on disciplinary penalties. The system of selection, appointment and management of officials needs to be improved, he added.
“Officials should be truthful in their lives and faithful in their duties,” Xi said.
The authorities should reduce intervention at micro-level to the minimum to prevent abuses of power, he added.
Xi told discipline inspectors at all levels that fighting corruption and fostering clean governance were their “central tasks.”
“Inspectors must shoulder their responsibilities and carry out supervision while remaining loyal, honest and responsible.”
The anti-corruption campaign has felled a swathe of officials at state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation, the parent of PetroChina. Zhou Yongkang, China’s disgraced domestic security tsar who has become the most high-profile target of the drive, once ran the oil giant.
Xi said the fight against graft still had challenges ahead.
He said anti-graft work in 2014 was “effective” and the campaign was a matter of life or death for the Party and the nation.
The Party has fought corruption with “a strong sense of responsibility to the future,” “a deep commitment to its missions and an awareness of the risks,” Xi said.
However, Xi warned, the battle has not yet been won.
Corruption has not vanished, he said, and temptations remain.
However, Xi concluded: “We will win the fierce and protracted war against corruption and build a clean Party and government.”
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