Xi Jinping Calls for Anti-Graft Campaign in China
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2013-01-05
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China’s new Party chief Xi Jinping continues his official rhetoric against corruption in the Mainland, creating new rules against huge payouts to Chinese officials.
Chairing a meeting of the Communist Party’s Politburo on Monday, Xi stressed that authorities punish corrupt officials, because the future of the regime depends on it.
The Supreme People's Court and Supreme Procuratorate were on board. On the same day, they issued a document saying that giving an official more than 10,000 yuan, or around $1,600, is a crime. Those who do it will have to face the courts.
Analysts say this statement doesn’t go far enough.
[Gong Shengli, Economist, Author]
“Unless officials actually disclose their assets, this new government will have nothing to establish it's credibility, and will not be able to fight corruption.”
Getting officials to disclose their assets may be easier said than done. Last November, even the Chief of the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Wang Qishan, said that any such policy would be hard to implement.
[Tang Baiqiao, Democracy Activist] :
“Most of the assets officials have are not obtained legally. Anyone whose actual wealth is discovered, faces the wrath of the law. So, disclosing assets will either just be a rule that's useless, or, if truly enforced, officials would be brought to court. The point is; they WON'T disclose their assets."
On December 26, Bloomberg Media Group disclosed details on the wealth possessed by the relatives and children of eight top Communist Party veterans. The three families of Wang Zhen, Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun, controlled or still control state-owned enterprises worth $1.6 trillion. That’s more than one fifth of China’s annual economic output.
On December 27, state-run China Youth Daily speculated that it would take at least 20 years before asset disclosure will really happen. Similarly, a law on official asset declaration entered a legislative process in 1994 and is still pending today.
In April, 2012, police investigated more than ten people from Guangzhou after they publically called on retiring Chinese leader Hu Jintao and other officials to declare their assets. Some of those Guangzhou citizens are still missing and have not been seen since.
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Chairing a meeting of the Communist Party’s Politburo on Monday, Xi stressed that authorities punish corrupt officials, because the future of the regime depends on it.
The Supreme People's Court and Supreme Procuratorate were on board. On the same day, they issued a document saying that giving an official more than 10,000 yuan, or around $1,600, is a crime. Those who do it will have to face the courts.
Analysts say this statement doesn’t go far enough.
[Gong Shengli, Economist, Author]
“Unless officials actually disclose their assets, this new government will have nothing to establish it's credibility, and will not be able to fight corruption.”
Getting officials to disclose their assets may be easier said than done. Last November, even the Chief of the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Wang Qishan, said that any such policy would be hard to implement.
[Tang Baiqiao, Democracy Activist] :
“Most of the assets officials have are not obtained legally. Anyone whose actual wealth is discovered, faces the wrath of the law. So, disclosing assets will either just be a rule that's useless, or, if truly enforced, officials would be brought to court. The point is; they WON'T disclose their assets."
On December 26, Bloomberg Media Group disclosed details on the wealth possessed by the relatives and children of eight top Communist Party veterans. The three families of Wang Zhen, Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun, controlled or still control state-owned enterprises worth $1.6 trillion. That’s more than one fifth of China’s annual economic output.
On December 27, state-run China Youth Daily speculated that it would take at least 20 years before asset disclosure will really happen. Similarly, a law on official asset declaration entered a legislative process in 1994 and is still pending today.
In April, 2012, police investigated more than ten people from Guangzhou after they publically called on retiring Chinese leader Hu Jintao and other officials to declare their assets. Some of those Guangzhou citizens are still missing and have not been seen since.
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