Wen Wei Po:

We noticed that in recent years, several provincial and ministerial officials were punished by vertically degrading their official ranks to very low levels. May we ask what the standards are for such punishment? How have the lives of these officials changed?

Luo Dongchuan:

Vertical degradation is a vivid description made by the media. As for discipline investigation, when we discover those who seriously violate discipline, they will be severely punished according to the Party's discipline rules. For example, their duties in the Party will be removed. They will be put on probation within the Party or expelled from the Party. So, we will also perform significant job re-arrangement as a result. For example, some will be degraded from provincial and ministerial ranks to bureau-level ranks while others will be lowered to section rank levels or even office levels. Such punishments will be given based on the Party's rules and regulations, as well as the discipline punishment rules and the case examination principles. The punishments vary according to different situations. There is a principle which stresses to "learn from past mistakes to avoid future ones" and "help them mend their ways to save them." This kind of punishment (vertical degradation) is also one of the "Four Patterns" proposed by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. We give punishment based on the particular case of discipline violation and then make significant job arrangement. You can find several media reports about this.

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