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Anti-graft teams target 7 top organs
反腐瞄准七大政府部门

Source: Agencies | December 13, 2014, Saturday | Print Edition

THE corruption watchdog of the Chinese Communist Party will establish permanent offices in seven of the country’s most important Party and government departments as part of a sweeping campaign against graft.

Teams will be based in the CPC Central Committee’s General Office, Organization Department — which is in charge of performance assessment and the promotion of officials — Publicity Department and United Front Work Department, the General Office of the State Council, the National People’s Congress — China’s top legislature — and the country’s top political advisory body, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.

While several inspection teams have been dispatched across China in recent months, this is the first time actual offices have been established in key arms of the government. The move paves the way for the creation of further offices in the future.

“Central Party and government authorities are organs of supreme power, and the center of the country’s governance system,” Chen Wenqing, deputy head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said.

“But graft cases in recent years in some organs have caused very bad impacts ... It is imperative and very necessary to strengthen supervision over them.”

Setting up CCDI resident offices in the seven organizations is intended to “concretely intensify supervision over leaders and members of the relevant departments,” Chen said.

The “supervisors” will focus on investigating the potential wrongdoings of senior officials, and will have access to the agencies’ accounts and officials’ reports on their personal and family finances and activities, Xinhua said.

The decision was made at a Standing Committee meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Thursday.

Resident disciplinary offices have already opened in 52 central government organs. Thursday’s decision was part of the work to set up offices in all 140 central Party and government organs, Chen said.

President Xi Jinping launched a crackdown on graft after becoming Party chief in late 2012 and president the following year, warning that the problem is so serious it threatens the Party’s very survival.

He has vowed to take down powerful “tigers” and lowly “flies.”

Last week the government announced the arrest of former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, accusing him of crimes ranging from accepting bribes to leaking state secrets.

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