Party disciplinary commissions at various levels should strictly enforce the party's political disciplines so as to provide a powerful political guarantee for a sound environment to safeguard reform, development and stability, he said.

Wei Jianxing, a member Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, called on CPC members, and leading officials in particular, to consciously abide by the party's political disciplines in combating ethnic separatism and safeguarding the unity of the motherland during a week-long tour of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region beginning August 13.

Meanwhile, Wei, who is also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, praised the Xinjiang Autonomous Regional Commission for Discipline Inspection for its successful experience concerning discipline inspection work.

Moreover, Wei added, this year's priority should be to strike hard against leading officials' corruption and other related malpractices, such as accepting gift money or other gifts of any form from individuals, units and even foreign firms or seeking education or employment opportunities for their spouses and children by taking the advantages of their positions.

(Xinhua News Agency August 21, 2002)