Xin Zhiping: Positive wind and anti-corruption, must be "zero tolerance"

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 20 Title: Positive Winds and Anti-Corruption Must Be "Zero Tolerance"!

Xin Zhiping

The hidden "small seafood", the blatant "private garden", the self-made clever "option-style corruption"... The recently aired TV feature "Zero Tolerance" has attracted widespread attention. One sobering case after another, a precise and powerful iron fist, released a strong signal: positive wind and anti-corruption, must be "zero tolerance"!

Where there is corruption, there must be opposition, where there is greed, there must be purging, and always maintain a zero-tolerance attitude is a clear attitude that our party has consistently adopted. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has made historic and pioneering achievements in promoting the construction of party style and clean government and the anti-corruption struggle with unprecedented courage and determination, and promoting the comprehensive and strict management of the party. As of October 2021, the national discipline inspection and supervision organs had filed a total of 4.078 million cases and 4.379 million cases, of which 484 were cadres in charge of case filing and examination and investigation, and a total of 3.998 million people were given party discipline and government affairs sanctions. Through unremitting efforts, some unhealthy tendencies and evil tendencies that have not been stopped for many years have been stopped, many stubborn and chronic diseases that have not been resolved for a long time have been solved, the lax and soft situation of managing the party and administering the party has been fundamentally reversed, and a successful path of relying on the party's self-revolution to jump out of the historical cycle rate has been explored.

"Insist on punishing corruption with zero tolerance". A few days ago, at the sixth plenary session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to unremittingly promote the comprehensive and strict management of the party to the depth. In the face of achievements, we must also soberly realize that the contest between corruption and anti-corruption is still raging, that there is still a long way to go to prevent all kinds of interest groups from forming a posture and from "hunting" and corrupting, that there is still a long way to go to effectively deal with the invisible mutation of corrupt means and to renovate and upgrade, that there is still a long way to go to completely eradicate the soil that breeds corruption and to clear up the Haiyan River, and that there is still a long way to go to clean up systemic corruption and defuse hidden risks. The four "heavy tasks and long roads" proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping fully show that the anti-corruption struggle is a tough and protracted battle, and as long as there is the soil and conditions for corruption, corruption will not be eradicated. We must not breed the sentiment that we have been strict in place and strict to the end, and we must maintain our political determination to fight corruption, unswervingly adhere to the main tone of strictness, and always blow the charge of the right wind and anti-corruption.

"Zero tolerance" means constantly improving the power supervision system and the discipline enforcement system. Sun Lijun, former member of the party committee and vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, who "became a saboteur of fairness and justice," was investigated and punished; Sun Deshun, former deputy secretary of the party committee and governor of China CITIC Bank Co., Ltd., who was "suspected of receiving cash too low-end," was exposed in his original form; and some leading cadres in Inner Mongolia who "approved coal at the front desk and fished for money from the back of their sons and daughters" fell one after another, once again verifying the iron anti-corruption law that "if you reach out, you will be caught." To eradicate the soil of corruption, we must improve the supervision system of the party and the state, build an all-round supervision system without dead ends, form a joint force of supervision with comprehensive coverage and normal long-term effectiveness, give prominence to strengthening supervision over the "key minority," especially the "number one" and the leading body, let power always run under the sun, and let corrupt elements have nothing to hide.

The positive trend of "zero tolerance" and the anti-corruption posture also reminds cadres at all levels to always be self-respecting and self-reflective, strictly abide by discipline, laws and regulations, and buckle the "first button" of honesty and honesty in government. A large number of cases have shown that the loss of ideals and convictions and the collapse of ideological are the beginning of a slide toward corruption. Wrought iron must be its own. Only by taking the party constitution, party rules, party discipline, and the original mission as mirrors, strengthening ideals and convictions, and tempering the cultivation of party spirit can leading cadres guard the defense line against corruption and degeneration, and be able to behave in an upright and upright manner, do things honestly and honestly, and be innocent and innocent officials.