The Communist Party of China (CPC) has warned that cadres who
gamble and those involved in illegal property deals will be the
focus of an intensified crackdown on corruption.
A communique released Wednesday from a plenary session of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection (CCDI) also warned against embezzlement and fraud in the
management of state-owned enterprises.
In the communique, members vowed to intensify the fight against
corruption and continue the building of a "clean" Party.
The three-day seventh plenary session of the CCDI, which ended
on Wednesday, reviewed the work of the past year and outlined the
anti-corruption and Party building work for 2007.
The communique said in 2006 the CPC made progress in building a
clean Party and in fighting against corruption, especially in
cracking down on commercial bribery, and detecting and punishing
corrupt officials.
The Party should realize that the fight against corruption is a
long-term, complicated and arduous task.
Members should take a more resolute attitude and tougher
measures, so as to create a favorable political atmosphere for the
convention of the 17th National Congress of the CPC this year, said
the communique.
The communique said discipline inspection commissions at all
levels will enhance their inspection and supervision of major
issues which have a direct bearing on people's interests,
vigorously promote a truth-seeking and down-to-earth style of work
and resolutely oppose bureaucratism and formalism among Party
members.
All Party members should be frugal and oppose extravagance and
waste. The fight against corruption should be intensified, so that
leading cadres at all levels can improve their ability to lead
people in the building of a harmonious socialist society, the
communique said.
Officials who purchase commercial housing at prices far lower
than market prices by taking advantage of the influence of their
posts, occupy and use borrowed houses and vehicles but fail to
return them, take part in gambling or seek illicit money in
activities like gambling, seek illegal profits by using others to
invest in the stock market, or seek other forms of illegal earnings
for themselves and their family relatives and friends will be
seriously dealt with, the communique said.
The Party will stringently crack down on money-for-power favors,
illegal loans and exemptions, illegal investments or authorizations
of mining projects, the misuse of state-own assets in state-run
reorganizations, illegal earnings through misuse of land and
unauthorized changes in land planning, and cheating in government
public tenders. Laws and regulations about market competitions
should be improved, and a long-term mechanism against commercial
bribery established, said the communique.
The production of fake or inferior-quality food and drugs will
be targeted, as will illegal price rises in agriculture-related
products. Production safety will be a priority as well as the fight
against illegal pollution discharges by factories, said the
communique.
Further efforts will be made to eradicate unreasonable
educational fees and to crack down on misdeeds in the medicine
trade and medical services, said the communique.
(Xinhua News Agency January 11, 2007)