BEIJING - The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always conscientiously prioritized combating corruption and clean government building among its tasks, says a white paper released by the Information Office of the State Council, China's Cabinet, on Wednesday.

Particularly since the reform and opening-up policies were introduced, the CPC Central Committee has formulated a series of strategies, principles and policies related to the work, says the white paper, China's Efforts to Combat Corruption and Build a Clean Government.

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Since 1993 the CPC Central Committee has been making arrangements for the work of combating corruption and building a clean government in the whole Party and country at annual plenary sessions of its Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

The State Council holds a working conference on building a clean government every year to make arrangements in the government system.

Public support and participation is an important foundation for the success of combating corruption and building a clean government, the white paper says.

Social organizations, news media and the broad masses of the people play a significant role in making suggestions and offering advices, participating in supervision, and uncovering corruption, it notes.

In China, the major functional bodies for combating corruption and building a clean government are the Party's organs for discipline inspection, judicial organs of the state, supervisory and auditing organs of the government, and the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention.

The above organizations with different functions are independent in performing their duties and, at the same time, coordinate and collaborate with one another.

In recent years, these organs have taken strict measures to improve the requirement standards, education, management and supervision of personnel for law and discipline enforcement, according to the white paper.

As a whole, in the practice of combating corruption and building a clean government over the years, China has put into place a leadership system and a working mechanism with Chinese characteristics, in which Party committees take unified leadership of the work, the Party and government both administer it, discipline inspection commissions of the Party organize and coordinate it, different departments take their due responsibilities related to it, and the masses support and participate in the endeavor, it says.