In the first six months of this year over 10,000 employees of 11
provincial-level and 18 major city governments have been held
responsible following a national campaign to crack down on lax
administrative law enforcement, said a senior official of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) at a news conference in Beijing
Thursday.
Gan Yisheng, secretary-general and spokesman of the Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, said at the news
conference that the officials were all involved in administrative
law enforcement cases and failed to perform their duties
appropriately.
In the first half of this year Gan said the commission had
improved its supervision of administrative operations and this had
significantly helped in exercising its management role. "China is
pushing forward its anti-corruption efforts in an in-depth way and
seeks to prevent corruption at the root," said Gan.
He added that to this end reforms were being carried out in the
personnel, judicial, administrative, fiscal, tax, investment and
financial sectors.
From early this year to the first half of 2007 the CPC, with
more than 70 million members, will reshuffle the posts of more than
100,000 officials at provincial, prefectural, county and township
levels. The content of Thursday's news conference was viewed as the
CPC warning officials to obey the law when carrying out their work.
Gan said the CPC's inspection work, which is done by the
commission and the Organizational Department of the CPC Central
Committee at central level, has also scored many successes in
assisting supervise in the operation of administrative power.
Statistics from the commission show that a total of 489 cities
and 888 counties had been drawn into the inspections by the CPC's
provincial-level disciplinary and organizational departments.
This has been identified as a major anti-corruption drive with
China in the process of building an effective system to ensure
the government affairs are appropriately handled and made
public.
So far 53 of all the central departments directly under the
State Council have set-up special leading groups to manage the
initiative with 28 of them actually writing rules on the
subject.
"To promote the openness of the government affairs is a major
part of the development of socialist democracy," said He Yong,
deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection.
(Xinhua News Agency July 28, 2006)