China has set up an inspection tour system to check the
performance of government officials and state-owned enterprises'
managers, an official with the Communist Party of China's
discipline sector said yesterday at a news conference in
Beijing.
Gan Yisheng, secretary-general and spokesman with the Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, said the
commission has so far completed inspection tours of 31 provincial
governments, four state assets management corporations and nine
state-controlled banks.
The provincial governments have also respectively established
their inspection tour system to check local governments and
state-owned enterprises.
More than 10,000 government officials were held liable by 11
provincial-level and 18 major city governments in the first half of
this year in a national campaign against slack administrative law
enforcement.
Gan said the commission is making great efforts to promote the
transparency of the government's administrative power as an
effective way of eradicating corruption.
Gan described three steps to reach the goal:
to clear up the government's administrative power: all
administrative power should be legal and those powers prescribed by
official documents will be annulled if they conflict with law.
to make known to the public the scope of the government's
administrative power.
to make known the government's workflow and receive public
supervision.
So far, 85 per cent of the county-level governments and 83 per
cent of the prefecture-level governments have established the
system of transparent government.
To implement the concept of scientific development, the
commission has made environmental protection one of its top
concerns this year.
Gan said it would be a dereliction of duty if local officials
develop the economy at the cost of the environment.
This year, the commission has carried out more than 20
inspection projects nationwide, working with relevant sectors to
rectify unhealthy tendencies such as blind investment, repeated
construction and "image projects," which are a sheer waste of both
labour and money.
The Ministry of Supervision and the State Environmental
Protection jointly promulgated the Interim Regulations on the
Punishment of Violations of Environmental Protection Laws or
Disciplines on February 20.
The commission has paid special attention to cases violating
people's interests, including producing and selling inferior food
and medicine, failing to provide safe working conditions and
delaying migrant workers' wages.
By the end of June, various parts of the country had paid 177
billion yuan (US$21.9 billion) in delayed construction workers'
wages.
(China Daily July 28, 2006)