CCDI intensifies supervision of corruption cases

Discipline inspectors handled 10,186 graft cases in the first 11 months of this year, up by 55 percent year-on-year, according to data released by the Beijing Commission for Discipline Inspection on Friday.

During the same period of time, the authority received 42,829 public tip-offs through letters and visits, an increase of 31 percent year-on-year, according to the commission.

Chen Mingjie, spokesperson of the commission, said the rise is a result of intensified supervision.

“Beijing has achieved effective results on anti-corruption with a continuous high pressure on violations,” he said, adding the commission has improved their working mechanism by increasing online channels for public complaints and investigating deeply on every corruption case.

A total of 576 government officials who have violated the “eight-point frugality rules” were punished from January to November, an increase of 45 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the commission.

In December 2012, China's central leadership issued the “eight-point rules”, requiring government officials to strictly practice frugality and clean up undesirable work styles such as formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance. Practices such as the use of public funds to buy gifts, hold banquets and pay for holidays have since been strictly banned.

Chen said the commission will step up efforts against hedonism and extravagance during the upcoming New Year and Spring Festival holidays.
He said inspection work will focus on county and township governments, to avoid corruption in the grassroots.

Li Shixin, spokesman of the Organization Department of the Beijing Committee of the Communist Party of China, said the department will establish an information database of clean government officials jointly with the discipline commission to better choose and supervise public servants.