Party discipline organs and government supervision departments
are working on a new plan to improve the anti-corruption system
between 2008 and 2012.
The plan will collect new ideas and measures to prevent
corruption and punish corrupt officials, said He Yong, deputy
secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
(CCDI), at a meeting held by the CCDI and Ministry of Supervision
on Thursday.
A draft plan had come out, but he did not give the details.
The plan would implement the guidelines issued at the 17th
National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), He
said.
In his report to the congress, President Hu Jintao said the
country would fight corruption in a comprehensive way, address its
symptoms and root causes, and combine punishment with prevention,
with the emphasis on prevention.
In September, China established its first National Bureau of
Corruption Prevention in a bid to stop corruption at its source by
reforming systems and closing loopholes in policies.
A number of ministerial-level or higher Chinese officials have
fallen to "serious corruption" charges in the last five years,
including the former director of the National Bureau of Statistics
Qiu Xiaohua, the former food and drug administration head Zheng
Xiaoyu, and former Party head of Shanghai Chen Liangyu.
Last year, more than 90,000 officials were disciplined,
accounting for 0.14 percent of the total CPC members.
(Xinhua News Agency December 14, 2007)