Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao said on Monday China
would continue its fight against corruption and improve the Party's
style of work, while improving inner-Party supervision of leading
Party officials.
Addressing the Third Plenary Session of the Party's Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection, Hu, also president of the
country, said the Party will remain tough in its determination to
investigate and handle major and important corruption cases.
On corrupt officials, Hu, general secretary of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said the Party
will investigate and punish whoever is found guilty of
corruption.
The Party shall never be appeasing any corrupt officials, or be
soft-hearted toward them, he told the meeting, which began on
Sunday.
On the other hand, the Party will also give priority to
rectifying unhealthy tendencies, which the general public strongly
complained about. They include impartiality in the work of
government officials and departments, seeking personal gains using
their power, or harming the legitimate interests of the public or
individuals, Hu said.
The Party leader said the CPC has set the targets of punishing
and preventing corruption in line with the changing situation
through improved mechanism for education, institution-building and
supervision.
The Party will step up its ideological, ethical and discipline
education to prevent corruption among officials, improve its
institutional framework to curb corruption and encourage officials
to remain clean, and set up a mechanism to ensure government powers
are used properly through better supervision, said Hu.
Hu said the Party will improve supervision of leading Party and
government officials at various levels through the supervision of
the Party, government departments, the general public, the mass
media and other ways.
The general secretary said the Party shall set up and improve
mechanisms to ensure the Party officials seek truths and be
down-to-earth in their work, including the mechanism of selecting
and appointing Party and government officials.
Other senior Party leaders, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin,
Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Li Changchun and Luo Gan attended the
meeting, which was presided over by Wu Guanzheng, secretary of the
CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
(Xinhua News Agency January 13, 2004)