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Voice from the top: No mercy for corruption
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-02-14 17:26
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Friday said China should continue its battle
against corruption in governments at all levels this year, while striving for
substantial progress in solving the outstanding problems that jeopardize the
interests of the people.
Premier Wen Jiabao
(C) delivers a speech at the second session on building an honest and
clean government convened by the State Council in Beijing Feb. 13, 2004.
Huang Ju (R) and Wu Guanzheng (L), both members of the Standing Committee
of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau,
were present at the meeting. [Xinhua] |
Addressing the second conference on building a clean government held by the
State Council, the Chinese cabinet, Wen said government bodies made marked
progress last year, with the central government revising its codes of conduct to
highlight democratic decision-making, administration according to law and
improved administrative supervision.
In 2004, the fight against corruption within governments should focus on
carrying out the anti-graft regulations concerning leading government officials,
greater efforts to investigate crimes involving officials and punishment of the
corrupt.
Wen also ordered governments at all levels to determinedly protect the
legitimate interests of disadvantaged people, such as farmers in land
acquisition deals, urban residents in relocation projects, employees of
state-owned firms in corporate regrouping and bankruptcy deals, and migrant
workers, who often complained about delayed payment of wages.
He also stressed the importance of regulating the conduct of government
departments in their exercise of administrative power, and reducing red-tape
while improving transparency of administrative affairs at various levels.
On Saturday, Chinese authorities convened a rare meeting to review the
efforts they have made during the past two months to protect the immediate
interests of the general population, especially needy people.
Addressing the meeting, Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju urged the Party and
governments at all levels to devote more time and resources to efforts helping
grass-root governments and people in need.
The Party and governments should devote more resources to coordinated social
and economic development and raising people's standard of living, said Huang,
also member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist
Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
During the New Year and traditional Chinese Lunar New Near period, the Party
and the central government dispatched 12 inspection groups to 18 provincial
regions and 18 Party and government institutions to probe the progress the
country has madein carrying out policies designed to help the people in need and
address the problems concerning the general public, Huang said.
The CPC Central Committee and central government have formulated policies to
create better conditions for the work and life of the general public, while
highlighting the importance of solving the problems that had great bearing on
their immediate interests during the past year, he said.
Huang said the nationwide inspection indicates local Party and governments
have done quite a lot in serving the people, making the "blood and flesh"
relation between the Party and the people even closer.
He said China would continue its bid to carry out those policies, and strive
for a mechanism that safeguards the immediate interests of the general public
and social stability through institutional construction and formulating new laws
and regulations.
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