(XINHUA)

Fan Songqing, Deputy Secretary General of the Guangzhou Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, south China's Guangdong Province, who proposed that governmental officials declare their family assets, has reignited public debate over the issue. Calling on Guangzhou to first implement the policy, Fan recently publicized his own family assets, the first to do so in the country.

He said the current official asset declaration policy is imperfect, only requiring officials to declare their salaries and service income and not their family assets and non-service income. Fan added that publicizing such information is necessary for effective supervision.