A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has urged Party committees and local governments to tighten discipline and nip corruption in the bud.
Guangdong Province had made significant progress in simplifying the examination and approval process and raising work efficiency, said Wei Jianxing, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, during an inspection tour of the south China province.
The reform efforts in Guangdong fully reflected the Party's guidelines to prevent corruption at source, said Wei, who is also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
Wei said that efforts should focus on strengthening the ideological and ethical education of Party members and officials and promoting the reform of systems to eradicate corruption.
Wei's inspection on Guangdong province started on March 21 and his inspection covered the cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhongshan and Foshan.
(Xinhua News Agency March 22, 2002)
