Since the beginning of this year, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has reported on the problem of more than 70 leading cadres' family style, how to cut off the "chain of family corruption" from the source

Source: Rule of Law Daily

The party Central Committee implements a two-pronged strategy; on the one hand, it controls the power of leading cadres who are party members and promotes the honesty and self-discipline of leading cadres; on the other hand, it controls the spouses, children, and spouses of children of leading cadres, restrains them from seeking improper benefits under the banner of leading cadres, and forces leading cadres to take the family style seriously and manage the people around them well

It is necessary to further build a more rigorous system and system to form a full and effective restraint on the power of leading cadres, and at the same time strengthen effective supervision over leading cadres and their families, and cut off the "chain of family corruption" from the source.

□ Reporter Chen Lei

"On the road of Violating Discipline and Law by Wu Xincheng, former secretary of the party group and director of the Shaanxi Provincial Grain Bureau, his wife Wang Moumou not only did not play a role in dissuading and reminding, but instead became a 'greedy internal helper.'"

Recently, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission publicly reported 10 typical cases of violations of discipline and law in the field of grain purchase and sale, and The Wu Xincheng bribery case was one of them. The Shaanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision previously published an article saying that Wu Xincheng's wife, Wang Moumou, often took the initiative to make demands to her husband, and what should have been "xiannei help" became "greedy internal help".

Statistics from the "Rule of Law Daily" found that since the beginning of this year, the review and investigation column of the website of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the State Supervision Commission has reported more than 70 leading cadres on the problem of family style.

Experts interviewed by this reporter held that whether party-member leading cadres can strictly manage their spouses, children, and other relatives, and whether they can strictly cultivate family style and tutoring has a bearing on ideals and convictions, honesty, and self-discipline. When problems arise in family style and home education, leading cadres are extremely likely to fall into the "quagmire" of violating discipline and law. In the future, it is necessary to further form a full and effective restraint on the power of leading cadres by building a more rigorous institutional system, and at the same time strengthen effective supervision over leading cadres and their families, establish an institutionalized "firewall," and cut off the "chain of corruption of relatives."

Improper family style is easy to fall into the quagmire of corruption

Continue to corrupt the party's work style, government style, and people's style

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission reported that Wu Xincheng took advantage of his position as deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission and director of the Shaanxi Provincial Grain Bureau to seek benefits for others in the distribution of grain storage targets, project contracting, and enterprise operation, and accepted bribes of more than 59.45 million yuan. Wu Xincheng was sentenced by the court to 13 years in prison and fined 3 million yuan.

In May 2010, Wu Xincheng's wife, Wang Moumou, co-funded the establishment of a real estate development company in the name of her brother-in-law. Then, Mr. Wang borrowed 40 million yuan from He X, chairman of a coal company in Binxian County, Shaanxi Province, and obtained the right to use a piece of commercial and residential land of more than 140 mu in the high-tech zone of Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, through auction.

Due to the sluggish real estate market, Wang Moumou wanted to change hands on this land as soon as possible, but he has not been able to do so.

Seeing that the repayment period of the 40 million yuan loan was approaching, Wang Moumou and Wu Xincheng discussed that Wu Xincheng would come forward to let the coal company acquire this land. Wu Xincheng looked for an opportunity to explain the situation to Mr. He. Considering that he had been helped by Wu Xincheng, He Moumou agreed. After some operation, Wang Moumou transferred this land and earned more than 20 million yuan.

The Shaanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision said that when some lawless businessmen want to find Wu Xincheng to "do things," most of them will find his wife first.

According to the court's determination, Wu Xinfei or his spouse and specific related persons illegally accepted and demanded bribes of more than 59.45 million yuan from others.

Wu Xincheng's case is not unique.

The first central management cadre to be informed of the problem of family style this year was Liu Guoqiang, former deputy secretary of the party group and vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission reported that Liu Guoqiang had no moral bottom line, was corrupt and degenerate, had a corrupt family style, and lost control of his family.

Li Jiuchun, former vice chairman of the Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress, was the first provincial management cadre to be notified of family style problems this year.

According to the reporter's statistics, since the beginning of this year, more than 70 leading cadres have been involved in family style problems in the circulars published in the examination and investigation column of the website of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the State Supervision Commission. Among them, there are 15 central management cadres and more than 60 other leading cadres.

Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Research Center for Building a Clean and Honest Government at Peking University, told reporters that in fact, since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the fall of many leading cadres is directly related to the unhealthy family style of leading cadres and the loss of control and education of their spouses, children, and other relatives. It can be said that behind the corruption of leading cadres, there are often problems such as "greed for internal assistance," "corruption within the government," and even "corruption of the whole family."

According to Zhuang Deshui's observation, judging from the occurrence of corruption cases, the most typical is that leading cadres evade organizational responsibility through their spouses, children, and other forms of business and enterprises, and even form a fixed channel for transporting interests, which is not a small harm. It can be seen from this that family style is not only a matter for leading cadres and a family, but also a matter of party style, government style, and people's style. If the family style of leading cadres is corrupt, it will destroy the party style, government style, and people's style.

Song Wei, professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing and director of the Research Center for Honest Administration, said: Since the beginning of this year, a number of central management cadres and provincial management cadres have been involved in the issue of family style in their examination and investigation circulars, which fully proves the determination of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission to vigorously grasp the problem of violating discipline and law caused by improper family style.

"The issue of family style has become a common problem in corruption cases since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and it has a certain regularity and trend." Song Wei held that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection's focus on this issue is a conclusion formed on the basis of profoundly summing up and analyzing the experience of investigating and handling corruption cases since the Eighteenth National Congress of the COMMUNIST PARTY of China, and it is even more a profound grasp of the trend of corruption. In fact, family style and tutoring have an important impact on the ideals and convictions of leading cadres and on their honesty and self-discipline; problems arise with family style and home education, and leading cadres are extremely likely to fall into the "quagmire" of violating discipline and law.

Spouses and children are prohibited from doing business or running businesses

Forcing leading cadres to manage the people around them well

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Zhou Benshun, former secretary of the Hebei Provincial CPC Committee and former director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, was the first leading cadre to be notified on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission that "the family style is corrupt."

In July 2015, Zhou Benshun was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and was investigated by the organization. In October of that year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that Zhou Benshun had "sought benefits for his son's business activities, had a corrupt family style, and indulged in indulgence and indulgence in his spouse and children."

In February 2016, China's discipline inspection and supervision newspaper published an article saying that judging from some corruption cases, the problems of leading cadres who have problems are generally not correct and their homeschooling is not strict. The corruption of Su Rong, former secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial CPC Committee, and others all have the characteristics of "family corruption" or even family-style corruption, and the lessons are painful and profound.

The following month, a newspaper article in China's Discipline Inspection and Supervision Newspaper named Wang Min, former member of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial CPC Committee and former secretary of the Jinan Municipal CPC Committee, and Su Rong, former secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial CPC Committee, as family-style corruption among high-ranking officials who had fallen from power.

It said that a major feature of Wang Min's case is that he indulged his wife, daughter, and son-in-law, and the whole family formed a chain with Wang Min as the core, husband and wife joining hands, the whole family joining forces, and jointly accumulating wealth. The Su Rong corruption case is a typical family corruption. During Su Rong's tenure as secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, his wife frequently intervened in land transfer, project construction, bidding and bidding, and demanded and accepted huge amounts of money. His son repeatedly intervened in land and engineering projects and collected benefit fees on a large scale.

"The phenomenon of 'family-style corruption' occurs from time to time, and the corrupt family style has become an important reason for leading cadres to seriously violate discipline and the law." China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily said.

In order to solve this problem, since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has put forward clear requirements for leading cadres in the new era in cultivating a clean and honest family style.

On the one hand, the "Guidelines for Honesty and Self-Discipline of the Communist Party of China," "Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party in the New Situation," and "Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment of the Communist Party of China" provide institutional basis for standardizing the construction of family style among leading cadres. On the other hand, after deliberation and approval by the former Central Committee's Deep Reorganization Conference, a pilot project was launched in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Chongqing, and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to further standardize the conduct of leading cadres' spouses, children, and their spouses in doing business and running enterprises.

In Song Wei's view, these explorations are innovative measures formed since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party Central Committee that have repeatedly emphasized the strict management of the spouses and children of leading cadres, and are of exemplary significance for further managing issues such as spouses and children and their families running businesses and running enterprises, and can effectively curb the conflicts of interest formed among the families of leading cadres and avoid the soil for corruption due to improper family style.

Zhuang Deshui held that the party Central Committee implements a two-pronged strategy; on the one hand, it controls the power of leading cadres who are party members and promotes leading cadres to be honest and self-disciplined; on the other hand, it controls the spouses, children, and spouses of their children of leading cadres, restrains them from seeking improper benefits under the banner of leading cadres, and forces leading cadres to take serious family style and manage the people around them well.

Zhuang Deshui said: It can also be seen from this that the behavior of relatives of leading cadres, such as spouses and children, in doing business and running enterprises has reached the point where it is necessary to vigorously rectify them. The behavior of relatives of leading cadres, such as spouses and children, in doing business and running enterprises has been deeply criticized by the common people and has affected the credibility of the party and the government.

Build a strong institutional "firewall" to constrain power

Strengthen supervision to cut off the "chain of family corruption"

It is worth noting that after a few years of local pilots, the communiqué of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission at the beginning of this year said that it is necessary to supervise the implementation of the regulations on the behavior of the spouses, children and spouses of leading cadres in doing business and running enterprises, and promote the strict implementation of the above rates. Educate and guide party members and leading cadres to resolutely oppose privileged thinking and privileged behavior, strictly manage their families and children, and strictly teach their families and families.

The reporter combed and found that this is also the first time since the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China that the communiqué of the plenary session of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission has mentioned the supervision and implementation of regulations on regulating the behavior of leading cadres' spouses, children and their spouses in doing business and running enterprises, and at the same time mentioning the strict management of family members and children.

Zhuang Deshui believes that the communiqué of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission mentions this issue, which means that the local pilot project has achieved certain practical results, and the results of the pilot project will be promoted on a larger scale to strengthen supervision over the people around the party members and leading cadres.

One corroborating proof is that in the education and rectification of the national political and legal contingent, "cadres and policemen who run businesses in violation of the law and their spouses, children, and their spouses engage in business activities in violation of the law" have been listed as one of the stubborn and chronic diseases that must be thoroughly rectified.

In November this year, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Justice, on the basis of sorting out and summarizing the problems investigated and handled in the course of education and rectification, pinpointed the crux of the problem, and separately issued a list of prohibited occupations for the relatives of cadres and policemen, and ensured that the political and legal cadres and policemen of each system were honest in the administration of justice, the use of power, and the integrity of their families through the establishment of rules and regulations.

Then, what kind of system needs to be established in the future so that the spouses and children of leading cadres will avoid becoming "greedy for internal help"?

Song Wei suggested that it is necessary to further build a more rigorous system and system to form a full and effective restraint on the power of leading cadres, and at the same time to strengthen effective supervision over leading cadres and their families, and cut off the "chain of family corruption" from the source. At the same time, strengthening the construction of leading cadres' family style still needs to be adhered to and solidified for a long time, so as to build a "firewall" at the level of family ideology.

Zhuang Deshui's suggestion is that to properly manage the family style of leading cadres, first of all, the leading cadres themselves should set an example, establish family rules, exercise effective supervision and management over their spouses, children, and other relatives, and prevent or prevent those around them from using their power to seek benefits. Second, it is necessary to strengthen supervision, and in particular, the organization departments should make full use of the power of the system of leading cadres reporting on matters related to individuals, put discipline and rules in the forefront, and solve the problems of improper family style and lack of management and education.

"The last is to strengthen the implementation of the system, conduct special supervision and inspection of the strict implementation of relevant systems by leading cadres, and implement strict accountability once problems are found." Zhuang Deshui said.

In Zhuang Deshui's view, on the one hand, leading cadres must be honest and self-disciplined; on the other hand, they must also be honest and self-disciplined, clean and honest, cultivate family style, and build an important defense line against corruption and erosion.