The Communist Party of China (CPC) has pledged to take stricter
measures to improve the Party's work style and prevent corrupt
activities by leading officials. The measures were worked out at
the Seventh Plenary Meeting of the CPC Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection, which was convened in Beijing January 23-25,
according to a communique adopted at the end of the meeting.
Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made
an important speech at the meeting, which was also attended by
other members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central
Committee Political Bureau Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Li Ruihuan, Hu
Jintao, Wei Jianxing and Li Lanqing.
The meeting examined and approved a work report delivered by Wei
Jianxing on behalf of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Wei is the secretary of the commission.
At
the meeting, the participants summed up last year's experience in
the fields of improving the Party's work style and building a clean
government, and fighting against corruption, and made new
arrangements for the tasks in 2002, the communique says.
They hailed Jiang's speech, saying that it is of great importance
for strengthening the Party building, improving the Party work
style and building a clean government and pushing forward the
anti-corruption campaign in a down-to-earth manner.
In
2001, the Party exercised a powerful leadership in improving the
Party's work style, building a clean government and in the fight
against corruption. A series of arrangements were made by the Party
Central Committee and the State Council to deepen the reform and
step up the efforts to wipe out corruption.
These efforts resulted in curbing the spread of corruption and
step-by-step resolving of deep-seated factors causing corruption,
according to the communique.
The communique says that in 2002, a year of great importance for
the history of the Party and the nation, which will witness the
convening of the 16th National Congress of the CPC, efforts will be
made to achieve new progress in improving the Party's style of work
and building a clean and honest government, and in the
anti-corruption campaign. The Party will take further measures to
curb corrupt activities, the communique says.
Further efforts will be made to ensure the honesty of leading
officials by strengthening supervision and inspection. Greater
efforts should be made to deal with major corruption cases,
especially in the fields of finance, securities, real estate,
personnel and judiciary work. Those involved in serious violations
of political discipline will be severely punished.
Efforts will be made to curb irregularities in pharmaceuticals
production and circulation, reduce the financial burden on farmers,
and curb illegal charges levied by highway administration
departments and schools.
In
order to curb corruption by officials, various departments and
regions should, in accordance with the Party's requirement,
accelerate the reform of the administrative system, adopt open
bidding and government procurement, deepen the reform of the
financial system, and push forward the reform of the personnel
system, according to the communique.
In
2002, the Chinese people will enjoy greater democracy, as all
county-level governments and some prefecture-level authorities will
be asked to allow the public to learn about their work, the
communique says.
The communique stresses the importance of abiding by the Party's
political discipline and upholding the authority of the CPC Central
Committee with Jiang Zemin at the core, so as to ensure the smooth
implementation of the central policies and orders, and achieve new
progress in improving the Party's work style and building a clean
and honest government.
(
January 26, 2002)