SCIO briefing on 7th plenary session of 18th CCDI
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Guo Weimin: Thanks Mr. Wu. Now you may start to ask your questions.
CCTV:
As we know, the seventh plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has deliberated and passed Regulations on Supervision and Discipline Enforcement of CPC Discipline Inspection Agencies (Trial). May I ask Mr. Wu why such regulations were made? Is it to prevent corruption in the discipline department? And the second question is why such regulations were put into such a high-level plenary session to be passed? Thank you.
Wu Yuliang:
The goal to make such regulations, just like the title of the popular TV documentary series broadcast days ago, "To Forge An Iron, One Must Be Strong Oneself," is to prevent corruption in the discipline department. We especially made rules regarding the most central power of supervision and discipline enforcement of the discipline department, proposing stricter requirements and tightening restrictions in the system.
As for why we discussed and passed the regulations, they are an indication of the spirit of the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. The theme of the sixth plenary session was to comprehensively and strictly govern the Party, as it also passed Norms of Political Life Within the Party Under the New Situation and the Regulations on Supervision Within the Party. So when the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection passed the regulations this time, it indicated that the power of the commission is also strictly supervised while the officials and cadres of the department are restrained by strict discipline. It shows our determination to build a strong anti-graft army. Thank you.
Asahi Shimbun:
I'm interested in the national supervisory commission. Will the state supervisory body have the same authority as state organs such as NPC and the central government? Someone said it will surpass the authority of the government, so how should we understand the relationship between it and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection? What is the purpose of having such a government organ? What main functions will it have? Thanks.
Xiao Pei:
Deepening national supervisory system reform and starting pilot plans in Beijing, Shanxi Province and Zhejiang Province are actually the same thing. This was a significant decision and strategic deployment made by the CPC Central Committee. After the news came out, it was wholeheartedly supported by the public.
President Xi Jinping had given the national supervisory commission a very clear and accurate definition: It is China's anti-graft organ.
To establish the national supervisory commission, including setting up supervisory commissions at national, provincial, municipal and county levels, is very significant political system reform. So establishing the national supervisory commission has the significance as you referred to in the first question. The purpose of setting up pilot areas is to get experience out of trial runs. This is to answer your first question.
For the second question, you mentioned authority and purpose. The fundamental purpose in deepening national supervisory system reform is to strengthen the centralized and unified leadership for the Party in its anti-graft works and integrate the functions of anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-negligence and anti-duty-related-crimes together, which were scattered in the Ministry of Supervision, the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention and various prosecuting departments, in order to form a new national supervisory organ in the pilot areas. This supervision will cover all civil servants who have public power.
What's the relationship between it and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection? It operates with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Actually, it is the same crew but has two names. Its duties are to execute self-supervision on the Party and the country's government. It is the national supervisory commission's duties to supervise, to investigate and to deal with corruption. Thanks.
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