New anti-graft head promises more supervision
Updated: 2012-12-03 01:05
By An Baijie (China Daily)
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The chief of the ruling Party's top discipline watchdog has vowed to strengthen supervision of officials.
"Trust can never replace supervision," said Wang Qishan, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China.
He made the pledge while leading a seminar in which scholars gave their suggestions on how to fight corruption.
Wang is one of the seven newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
Eight experts in anti-corruption research from universities and government agencies were invited to give their opinions at the seminar, which was held in Beijing on Friday.
During the seminar, the experts said that publicizing officials' assets is an effective measure to prevent corruption, and should be done as soon as possible.
Ma Huaide, vice-president of China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, was at the seminar. He said that publicizing officials' assets should be a compulsory requirement enforced by the law.
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"There is an urgent need to have legislation on the publication of information, requiring officials' assets to be reported to anti-corruption agencies and made public," he said.
Jiang Ming'an, a law professor at Peking University who also attended the seminar, said that even though publicizing officials' assets has been implemented as a pilot project in some places, many officials reported only a small portion of their assets, having hidden part of their wealth.
"We must firstly deal with such problems in the pilot project before making relevant legislation," he said.
Jiang said Wang listened attentively to the scholars' suggestion to publicize officials' assets, and agreed with them that any moves in this direction should be carried out "step by step", as the situation is complex.
"He (Wang) said that he took part in the legislation of inheritance tax, and he found that it was difficult to turn the tax into practical law immediately because there are lots of complex issues," Jiang told China Daily on Sunday.
"He said that publicizing officials' assets is also a complex issue which needs thorough research before being turned into law."
An online investigation initiated by China Youth Daily last week showed that 76.6 percent of people expect anti-corruption work to be strengthened in the next decade.
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