A senior Chinese official warned on Friday that vigilant efforts
to crackdown on corruption will continue and those found guilty
will face punishment.
He Guoqiang, member of the Standing Committee
of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political
Bureau, said the Party would "never let pass and tolerate corrupt
elements" while addressing a national conference in Beijing.
He, who heads the CPC Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection, said the Party would continue its efforts to deal with
corruption cases and sternly investigate and punish criminal cases
involving "collusion between officials and merchants, trading of
money and sex with official powers, and severe infringement of
people's interests."
Many senior officials have been found guilty of serious
corruption, 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 alone, more than 90,000 officials were disciplined,
which accounted for 0.14 percent of the total number of the CPC
members.
The national conference was attended by discipline inspectors
assigned to government departments and large state companies by the
CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the
Ministry of Supervision.
Mr. He urged the discipline officials to deepen the current
anti-corruption campaign in places where they were watching
over.
The top disciplinarian called for substantial efforts to
supervise and inspect the implementation of the Party's political
discipline in these institutions and firmly correct and punish
activities against the scientific concept of development. This was
to ensure that major decisions and arrangements of the central
authorities were effectively implemented.
He Yong, a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central
Committee and CCDI deputy secretary, presided over the meeting.
(Xinhua News Agency December 29, 2007)
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