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Party to ‘uproot’ sources of graft
王岐山：保持高压 治病树 拔烂树

Source: Shanghai Daily | October 26, 2014, Sunday | Print Edition

CHINA’S top discipline inspector yesterday promised to fight corruption like “treating sick trees” and “rooting up rotten ones.”

The Communist Party of China is facing a severe and complicated situation in curbing corruption, said Wang Qishan, head of the Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at its fourth plenary session.

The Party is still unable to completely uproot the sources of harmful working practice so it might be difficult to prevent them from reemerging, Wang said.

Despite fierce anti-graft initiatives, there are still officials who refuse to stop their wrongdoings, Wag told the meeting.

But he said: “Any corrupt officials who go back to their old ways will pay the price.

“We will keep pressing the anti-graft campaign, treating sick trees and rooting up rotten ones.”

The CCDI also yesterday discussed how to implement the blueprint of legal reform in anti-corruption work. The plan was adopted on Thursday at the fourth plenary session of the CPC Central Committee.

Wang said discipline inspectors should study the decision carefully, improve their work and ensure that the leadership’s orders are delivered.

In the new legal reform plan, the CPC has installed itself as the leader in the promotion of the rule of law in China.

The Constitution sets the CPC’s authority, but Party rules ask the CPC to exercise it within legal boundaries, Wang said.

“The Party members should bear extra political duties. Once you join the Party, you have to be beyond reproach,” he said.

All Party departments and members should be subject to rigid restrictions through Party rules and set an example by abiding by the law, he said.

The rule of law and “rule by virtue” must go hand in hand, Wang said.

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