Party discipline organs and government supervision departments are working on a new plan to improve the anti-corruption system between 2008 and 2012.

The plan will collect new ideas and measures to prevent corruption and punish corrupt officials, said He Yong, deputy secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), at a meeting held by the CCDI and Ministry of Supervision on Thursday.

A draft plan had come out, but he did not give the details.

The plan would implement the guidelines issued at the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), He said.

In his report to the congress, President Hu Jintao said the country would fight corruption in a comprehensive way, address its symptoms and root causes, and combine punishment with prevention, with the emphasis on prevention.

In September, China established its first National Bureau of Corruption Prevention in a bid to stop corruption at its source by reforming systems and closing loopholes in policies.

A number of ministerial-level or higher Chinese officials have fallen to "serious corruption" charges in the last five years, including the former director of the National Bureau of Statistics Qiu Xiaohua, the former food and drug administration head Zheng Xiaoyu, and former Party head of Shanghai Chen Liangyu.

Last year, more than 90,000 officials were disciplined, accounting for 0.14 percent of the total CPC members.

(Xinhua News Agency December 14, 2007)