Party warned of long road to clean society
13/10/2007 10:54
The fight against corruption will be long and hard, the Central Commission
for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China said
yesterday.
A two-day meeting of the commission, which ended in Beijing
yesterday, pledged to step up the fight.
Although efforts against graft
have taken effect, it must be fully realized that anti-corruption is a
"long-term, complicated and tough battle," the commission said in a
communique.
It said the commission will stick to the guideline of curbing
graft by both penalties and preventive measures and focusing more on
prevention.
While intensifying the punishment of corrupt officials,
efforts will be made to close loopholes in policies and systems so as to stem
corruption at the source, it said.
More efforts should be made to educate
officials about the Party tradition and keep them close to the people, it
said.
The commission approved a work report to the 17th CPC National
Congress, which opens in Beijing on Monday.
The four-day Seventh Plenary
Session of the Central Committee of the CPC, which also ended in Beijing
yesterday, set the date for the congress.
The plenum also endorsed the
July 26 decision of the Political Bureau of the Party's Central Committee to
expel former Shanghai Party Chief Chen Liangyu from the Party.
The
Political Bureau decided to expel Chen, 61, after the commission investigated a
social security fund scandal.
The meeting reviewed and approved the
commission's investigation report on Chen.
The meeting also endorsed the
Political Bureau's decision to expel Du Shicheng, former deputy secretary of the
CPC's Shandong Provincial Committee.
Du, 57, was expelled for taking huge
bribes and leading a dissolute life.
Hu Jintao, general secretary of the
CPC Central Committee, delivered a work report which was discussed and
approved.
The plenum also discussed and approved a report to be presented
by the 16th Central Committee to the 17th Party Congress, as well as an
amendment to the Party Constitution.
The plenum made a positive
assessment of the work of the Political Bureau since the Sixth Plenary Session
of the 16th Central Committee held last October, said a communique.
It
held that, guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three
Represents," the Political Bureau has implemented the spirit of the previous six
plenums of the 16th Central Committee and the 16th Party Congress and faithfully
carried out "the scientific concept of development."
The communique gave
no details of the proposed amendment to the Constitution.
But the
Political Bureau, which worked out the draft on September 17, said at the time
it reflects the major strategic thoughts the present Central Committee has set
forth since 2002.
These include the concepts of scientific development
and a harmonious society.
The 73 members of the Shanghai delegation to
the 17th Party Congress will leave for Beijing this afternoon.
Xinhua/Shanghai Daily
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