China steps up anti-graft efforts in past 30 years
10/10/2008 16:52
China has beefed up the anti-corruption and discipline work since the
country adopted the reform and opening-up policy 30 years ago, official sources
said.
To ensure major policies of the central government to be faithfully
implemented at various levels, the Ministry of Supervision (MOS), working with
other relevant departments, has severely cracked down on defiant
activities.
In October 2006, for example, the MOS and the Ministry of Land
and Resources launched a campaign to overhaul cases involving the illegal use of
land nationwide. As of June this year when it was concluded, 3,733 officials
were punished, of whom 2,393 were prosecuted.
Government officials and heads
of state-owned enterprises were punished for abuse of power or dereliction of
duty. A campaign cracking down on these people buying shares in coal mines
launched since August 2005 has punished 148 involving 709 million yuan (US$103
million).
To further curb corruption, the departments of supervision and land
and resources have introduced public bidding mechanism for land use and mining
rights since 2004.
China now has 3,224 supervision and discipline departments
at various levels with 360,000 staff.
In last September, the National Bureau
of Corruption Prevention was set up, which helped further beef up the country's
anti-graft efforts.
Xinhua
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