The disciplinary watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) warned local authorities on Tuesday to rigorously observe rules on assessing work performance in the ongoing nationwide leadership reshuffle to prevent the promotion of corrupt officials.
"Concrete measures should be taken in line with the rules to ensure job performance assessments are real and to prevent already corrupt officials from being appointed or promoted to higher positions," said Xia Zanzhong, deputy-secretary of the CPC Central Commission of Discipline Inspection.
It is not unusual that some Party and government officials who have committed serious crimes of embezzlement and bribery continue to rise in their political careers before being caught.
One recent example was Hu Xing, former deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Transport Department, who was arrested in February for taking more than 40 million yuan (5.2 million U.S. dollars) in bribes and keeping a mistress.
Prosecution documents said he began taking 50,000 yuan in bribes as far back as in 1995, when he was working for the city planning section of Kunming City, capital of southwestern Yunnan Province.
China has been undergoing nationwide leadership elections and reshuffles in both the Party and government at county, city and provincial levels since last year, which will be completed later this year ahead of the CPC National Congress.
Xia said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua that in order to ensure clean and honest administration of the Party and government, a series of new reform measures are in the pipeline:
-- Government departments will be relieved of some administrative authority, especially in granting business or other permits. More government affairs and operations are to come under public scrutiny, especially those concerning the interests of the public;
-- Government bodies will be requested to strictly separate expenditure from income to avoid conflicts of interests;
-- More people's jurors and supervisors from outside the judiciary should be installed at legal proceedings to ensure trials are open and fair.
Source: Xinhua
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