Inspectors sent by China's local Party committees, as part of a fledging inspection tour system to root out governmental misconduct, have detected more than 900 "clues" to corruption cases involving cadres above the county level, according to the central disciplinary watchdog.
"All the clues have been submitted to related departments and are helping them solve graft cases better," said Gan Yisheng, spokesman for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), at a press conference on Thursday.
Initiated in 1996, the inspection tour system has been fully developed, with the aim of intensifying inner-Party supervision and promoting a clean government.
So far, inspection teams sent out by CCDI and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee have completed their first round of inspection tours to the country's 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and are now in the middle of their second round of tours, Gan said.
They have also completed inspections of nine commercial banks, four state-owned assets management companies, four state-owned insurance companies, two state-owned securities companies as well as five backbone state-owned enterprises, Gan said.
All provincial Party committees have sent their own inspection groups, which have completed the first round of their inspection tour of cities and prefectures within their jurisdictions, he said.
"Their major tasks are to check how the local governments are putting into practice the Party's guidelines and policies, promoting a diligent and honest work style, selecting and appointing lower-level cadres and handling problems emerging from the process of reform and development," he said.
The inspectors have dug out many important clues to cases that involve Party cadres violating laws or disciplines, including the case of Chen Liangyu, who was recently expelled from the Party and dismissed from all government posts, he said.
They also stopped some local cadres from using company cars privately, punished those who live in free apartments larger than those allowed by the state regulations, and urged some to prevent their spouses and children from being engaged in illegal businesses, he added.
Some local governments and work units were found to be slack in employing environmentally-friendly and energy-saving measures. Some were found to have boasted about their work performance and blindly built "image projects", usually a waste of money and resources, to compete with their counterparts in other regions.
"Inspection teams have urged them to correct their malpractices and further spread the concept of scientific development, so as to help them pursue a comprehensive and coordinated sustainable development," Gan said.
They also helped clean up misconduct in the election and appointment of local cadres, such as gaining promotion by fawning upon superiors and trading official posts, he said.
The inspection tour system has effectively helped local leadership to cultivate more competent officials, enhance work performance and adopt an practical and honest work style, he added.
Source: Xinhua
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