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SCIO Briefing on 7th Plenary Session of 18th CCDI
  ·  2017-01-12  ·   Source:

Xinhua News Agency:

Someone called intra-Party supervision a self-conducted surgeries which is very difficult to go through. Therefore, my question is: Are the intra-Party regulations able to truly solve the conundrum? Thank you.

Xiao Pei:

The history of CPC has more than once proved the adage of Mr. Deng Xiaoping, who believed that our Party has huge self-remediation power every time we are troubled with mistakes that lead us in the wrong direction. Why? It is not because the CPC makes no mistakes but because we are never afraid to reckon our mistakes. When we are aware of them, we immediately correct them.

Among the overall supervision systems established to rule the Party and the country, intra-Party supervision has been prioritized among others, because when the intra-Party system loses its power, the other supervisions will undoubtedly become invalid. But we should not only rely on intra-Party supervision, but also on the scrutiny of our people so that we can combine the two different systems to ward off historical cycles. At the same time, intra-Party supervision should join in the multiple overseeing systems, including the democratic, social and individual supervisions as well as the monitoring and reporting of public opinions, in order to maintain the self-cleanliness, improvement, renovation and progress. Thank you.

Prensa Latina:

The Chinese Government has carried out a campaign against top-level grafts and all kinds of crimes, including against the high-ranking officials who have violated the appropriate public use of resources and funds to alleviate poverty and fight environmental pollution. My question is: Will the government establish new initiatives concerning this issue? And I also noticed that since there are lots of officials in high ranks accused of corruptions, are the measures to correct them bringing them again to society once they complete their sentences or are the charges just punitive? Thank you.

Luo Dongchuan:

The punishment for the embezzlement of funds to alleviate poverty or improve environmental conditions has always been the highlight of the disciplinary inspections. In 2016, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) made plans to send reports on the embezzlement of poverty-alleviating funds in various forms to designated departments. The focus is on the misuse of relief supplies, pocketing poverty-alleviating funds, making preferential offers to family members and friends, and faking poverty reports to ask for financial support. We'll severely punish the community-level officials charged of dereliction, inaction and misconducts. In 2016, we imposed penalties on more than 390,000 Party members and community-level officials. In the past four years since the 18th CPC National Congress, we have punished 1.14 million community-level officials.

For your second question, I need to point out that the ultimate goal of our stringent punishments of the Party members is to clean governance while educating, warning and intimidating corrupt officials so as to educate all Party cadres. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party cadres who received punishments have been required to reckon and correct their blunders with the help of education, management and supervisions. Once they finish their sentences, the Party cadres can be offered educational and job opportunities stipulated by relevant legal provisions and policies to help them return to society as upright people who respect the law.

Macao Daily News:

The inspections by the central inspection teams of the 18th CPC Central Committee are about to cover all regions and central departments across the country, hence fully playing their role as a sword against corruption and other misconduct. So, how will this year's inspections be arranged? Thank you!

Wu Yuliang:

The central inspection teams are dispatched by the CPC Central Committee, not by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). Under the resolute leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the central inspection teams of the 18th CPC Central Committee have completed 11 rounds of inspections, covering the Party organizations of 247 localities, government departments and enterprises. These inspections have totally covered all sub-national governments, key state-owned enterprises, central financial institutions and central and national agencies.

In addition, we have conducted a second round of inspections of 12 provincial (autonomous regional and municipal) governments, which is commonly referred to as "swinging around and firing another shot." These efforts have served as our sword against corruption as well as other misconduct. During the first half of the year, we will conduct inspections of centrally administered higher educational institutes while continuing with our "second round of inspections" of other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to ensure total coverage within the current term of administration of the CPC Central Committee.

After we complete the total coverage, the leading group of the central inspection work will draw a comprehensive summary of experience of the inspections to improve relevant systems and put forward ideas and suggestions for our future work. Thank you!

China Daily:

As for my first question, several days ago the Party chief and mayor of Panzhihua City in Sichuan Province took gun shots by the director of the local land and resource bureau. Rumor has it that the bureau director was tipped off that he was going to be inspected by the Party's discipline inspection committee and therefore took revenge. I'd like to ask whether such a rumor is true.

As for my second question, since some corrupted officials are still at large in developed Western countries, what concrete plans will China come up with regarding its deepened international cooperation in law enforcement?

Zhu Guoxian:

I'm taking your first question. We learned that the Party's disciplinary inspection commission of Panzhihua, upon approval of the city's Party committee, had planned to probe Chen Zhongshu, the director of the city's land and resource bureau. Now, the police are investigating the case. If there are any developments, concerned government departments of Sichuan Province will publish them in a timely manner. Thank you!

Liu Jianchao:

As for the international cooperation, anticorruption has been an important issue for the global community and in global governance. The breeding and transnational spreading of corruption will pose a serious challenge to global development, economic growth and even global security. Therefore, you may have noticed that not only the UN system but also the G20, among other regional mechanisms, all treat anticorruption as a very important issue.

In the future, we will continue with our cooperation with other countries. We will strengthen cooperation and form mechanisms – bilateral ones and multilateral ones – for hunting fugitives and recovering their illegal property.

Beijing Youth Daily:

Wang Qishan, secretary of the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), said in a speech at a meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Convention (CPPCC) on December 1 that two officials had asked for leave due to department systematic corruption. Since then, rumors refer them to two former ministers of civil affairs: Li Liguo and Dou Yupei. I would like to know the current condition of the two ministers. Thanks.

Luo Dongchuan:

As the director of the Department of Case Review of the CCDI, I would like to answer your question. After the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, Wang Qishan mentioned the case at a CPPCC meeting. Since the CPC published a new version of accountability regulation, Party officials must be made answerable for their neglect of duty. According to inspection and public reporting, the CCDI is conducting an investigation on the two officials now. As soon as the investigation is finished, they will be penalized for their violations according to the CPC discipline regulations. We will disclose relevant information to the public after the handling of the case. Thank you.

Wu Yuliang:

Cleaning up Party politics and anti-corruption will never succeed without the support, supervision and encourage of our media friends. Thank you for your concern and support for our work. Thank you!

Guo Weimin:

Thank you for the presence of all leaders of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the Ministry of Supervision. Thank you to all our friends from the press. Now the press conference ends.

(China.org.cn, January 10, 2017)

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