Senior Chinese official Wu Guanzheng on Saturday called for determined
and forceful measures to crack down on commercial bribery.
Wu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made
the remarks at an executive meeting of the leading group of the
national anti-commercial bribery.
The crack down on commercial bribery should focus on the issues
of people's concern that seriously harm the public interests and
disturb the market order, especially in areas including
construction, lease of land-use property, property trade,
pharmaceutical purchase, government procurement and resource
developing and trading, he said.
Wu, also secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection, said that civil servants who abuse their power in
involvement or interference with the business of entrepreneurial or
institutional units to seek bribery or illegal profits should be
severely punished.
He called for the speedup of the establishment of a credit
system to better impose management and supervision over related
transactions.
The crack down on commercial bribery should be based on China's
realities, Wu said, adding that China should also enhance exchanges
with other countries and learn from their experiences in fighting
against commercial bribery.
(Xinhua News Agency April 30, 2006)