Chinese authorities have called on the discipline and supervision
departments to step up anti-corruption efforts in order to fully
implement the guidelines issued during the recently concluded 16th
National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Wu
Guanzheng, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the new head of the CPC
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, made the remarks in
an address to members of his commission and the Ministry of
Supervision.
He
said that since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central
Committee in 1989, and especially following the 15th CPC National
Congress in 1999, the CPC Central Committee has attached great
importance to Party building and the struggle against corruption
and has taken a series of significant measures to ensure their
implementation.
Through the efforts of the whole Party and society, the war against
corruption has been intensified and has yielded positive results,
Wu said.
He
said that Party committees and governments at all levels should
follow the guidelines issued by the 16th CPC National Congress and
unswervingly intensify the campaign against corruption. The CPC
discipline commissions at all levels should be even more conscious
of their obligations and responsibility.
Wu
urged that the anti-corruption campaign be carried out in
accordance with the demand for economic, political and cultural
reforms to contribute to overall development, stability, and the
building of a xiaokang (well-off) society in an all round
way.
(Xinhua News Agency November 18, 2002)