"China should build up a national system of honest politics and
administration as early as possible to prevent corruption, setting
curbs on the spread and propagation of the corruptive phenomena,"
said
Hu
Angang in a grave manner, expert in the study of national
conditions.
Supposed to say that China had embarked on the work with economic
construction as its core after the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th
Central Committee of the CPC in 1978, thus opening up an era for
the soaring up of China's economy, said the expert. Today, China
should shift its central work to the establishment of a system, the
system of honest politics and administration so as to open up a new
age for system construction in China.
How is China going to build its system of honest politics and
administration? The following are the five concrete suggestions Hu
Angang has put forward.
- The Chinese Communist Party is the Party in power. To build up
a democratic system in China depends first of all on the
establishment of a democratic system within the Party itself. To
achieve this, it is necessary to further strengthen an interactive
system for dual-way supervision from top to bottom and vice
versa.
- To improve continuously the system of the people's congress and
ensure the democratic decision by the people in which it will
greatly help diminish the scope and scale of corruption, thereby
laying an effective control on a chain of corruption within the
government organizations.
- To set up a judicial system of relative independence in which
it can implement the law in conformity with the law and to render
the judicial system an independent organization, an independent
establishment with its own fund-supply and able to exercise the law
in an independent way.
- To strengthen the function of auditing supervision in order to
enhance the efficiency of auditing system.
- To establish a standardized civil-servant system in order to
reduce chances for corruption. To raise greatly all kinds of
anti-corruption costs and go in for the enhancement of an honest
politics and administration. To keep an honest and clean hand on
incomes, rendering the corruptive behavior "one of high risk but
low benefit". This is a primary way of thinking in designing a
system to prevent the corruption among civil servants.
The priority must first be given to the prevention of corruption in
the establishment of a national system of honest politics and
administration but not to mete out punishment afterwards, said Hu
Angang. To establish a national system of honest politics and
administration in China will realize an alteration of the state
functions. That is to promote the government organizations to a
reasonable use of public powers in execution of a fair distribution
of public expenses, an effective use of public resources and
finally to increase the public welfare.
( February 26, 2002)