A communique was issued in Beijing on Saturday following the
sixth plenary session of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which was held in
Beijing from Jan. 5 to 6.
The meeting, whose participants included 110 members of the
commission and 299 non-voting delegates, was intended to summarize
the work of the past year and arrange the anti-corruption and
self-construction work of the Party this year, says the
communique.
The communique says the meeting approved a report on
anti-corruption work delivered by Wu
Guanzheng, secretary of the CPC Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection.
Hu
Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee,
delivered a
keynote speech at the meeting, urging all Party officials to
study and abide by the Party constitution to fight and prevent
corruption.
The communique says Hu's speech is of great importance and will
serve as a guideline for enhancing Party construction, maintaining
Party discipline and pushing forward the anti-corruption
campaign.
All participants of the meeting shared the view that the
campaign to improve the Party's work style, build a clean
government and fight corruption has scored new progress and has
witnessed a sound development momentum, thanks to the joint efforts
of all party members and ordinary people.
The communique says that in 2006, the Party will take six
concrete measures to build a mechanism on punishing and preventing
corruption, to eliminate the soil and hotbed for corruption.
First, Party discipline inspection commissions at all levels
should enhance their inspection and supervision on major issues in
national development, such as enhancing the macro-economic
regulation, handling problems relating to agriculture, rural areas
and the farmers, improving the capacity of independent innovations,
saving energy and resources, and protecting the environment.
Second, the Party will firmly fight outstanding problems that
harm public interests, including the illegal charge of school fees,
the overpricing of medicines, the delay of salary payment to rural
migrant workers, and bribery in commercial activities.
Third, more anti-corruption education work will be carried out
among grassroots officials, while the procedure of selecting
officials for promotion will be more strict.
Fourth, discipline inspection departments at all levels should
play a leading role in studying and implementing the Party
constitution, resolutely curb any practice that goes against the
constitution, and properly handle the relations between punishing
and preventing corruption. Violators of Party discipline and those
abusing power for personal gains will receive severe
punishment.
Meanwhile, inspection and supervision should be strengthened
infields like finance, engineering projects, land management, mine
exploring, and governmental procurement. Discipline inspection will
focus more on cases gravely harming public interests, especially on
cases concerning production safety, food and medicine safety,
environmental protection and social stability. International
anti-corruption cooperation will also be strengthened.
Fifth, administrations at all levels will further reform their
working mechanism in personnel selection, justice, administrative
examination and approval, fiscal management and taxation and other
areas, so as to check corruption from the roots.
Sixth, the Party will enhance its inspection over financial
institutions and state-owned enterprises, and better supervise over
the county-level administrations.
The communique says the meeting demands discipline inspection
commissions at all levels fulfill their duty and responsibility
endowed by the Party constitution, and self-consciously receive the
supervision by the public.
The meeting called on all party members and the entire Chinese
people to make joint efforts for the establishment of a "harmonious
socialist society" and the full implementation of the "scientific
concept of development."
According to the communique, Wu
Bangguo, Wen
Jiabao, Jia
Qinglin, Zeng
Qinghong, Huang Ju,
Li
Changchun and Luo Gan,
all members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee, also attended the meeting.
(Xinhua News Agency January 7, 2006)