Xi lashes out at political cliques
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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has lashed out at graft and political conspiracy in the Party and called for an uncorrupt political ecology.
Xi made the remarks during the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee last week when explaining two documents on the discipline of the Party that were approved at the session, namely the norms of political life in the Party under current conditions, and the regulation on intra-Party supervision.
The full text of the two documents, as well as Xi’s explanation, were published yesterday.
Xi said political life in the Party has been good in general terms, but there were also prominent problems in urgent need of addressing.
He pointed to the questionable faith and loyalty of some Party members, including senior ones.
He cited a number of faults among such members, including lax discipline, detachment from the people, arbitrariness and inaction, acts of individualism, factionalism, the worship of money and violations linked to formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance.
Nepotism and election fraud have endured while some Party officials sold positions of power and bartered promotions, Xi said, adding that the abuse of power, corruption and legal and disciplinary violations have been spreading.
In particular, a handful of senior Party officials, overcome by political cravings and lust for power, had formed cliques to pursue selfish interests, he said.
These acts have severely eroded the Party’s ethical foundations, undermined its unity, and impaired the intra-Party political environment and the Party’s public image, Xi said.
He went on to list Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai, Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou and Ling Jihua as examples of such behavior, citing both their economic and political misdeeds.
Xi said that to rectify these problems, the Party would have to cultivate a clean and positive political ecology.
“Like natural ecology, political ecology is also vulnerable to pollution,” he said. “Once problems emerge, we have to pay a huge price to restore it to its original state.”
Wang Qishan, chief of the Party’s disciplinary watchdog, yesterday called for stricter supervision in a new round of problem-finding inspections.
Wang, who also heads an inspection leadership group of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting before the launch of the 11th round of inspections.
The new inspections will scrutinize Party committees of 27 top-level judicial organs, government agencies, institutions, and state media organizations, including the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, China Central Television and the Red Cross Society of China, according to a statement.
Inspection teams will also “reexamine” the work of Beijing, Chongqing, Guangxi and Gansu, the statement said.
The inspections will mainly focus on shortcomings in the implementation of Party rules and disciplines, anti-corruption work, and promotion of Party officials.
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