The Year of the Tiger in the Lunar Calendar is approaching, and the CCP has not stopped fighting the "tiger." From January 24 to 26, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission successively released the news that five central management cadres had been punished by party discipline and government affairs, and on the evening of the 26th, they also reported that two central management cadres had been investigated. So far, 7 central management cadres have been investigated this year.
The CCP has been fighting the "tiger" so intensively, and from it we can read the triple signal of "strictness," "constantness," and "depth."
"Strict" lies in the tone. On January 8, according to the circular, Zhang Yongze, vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Government, and Wang Bin, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of Chinese Life Insurance (Group) Company, were respectively examined and investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission. The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission immediately published a commentary saying: "The anti-corruption campaign at the beginning of the year has been made clear, and the main tone of strictness will be consistent and adhered to for a long time." ”
Only 10 days after the start of the year, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission was held in Beijing. The communiqué adopted at the meeting stressed that in 2022, discipline inspection and supervision work should "adhere to the strategic principle of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, unswervingly carry out the construction of party style and clean government and the anti-corruption struggle to the end", and asked discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels to "resolutely eliminate the stock and curb the increase".
Last year, discipline inspection and supervision organs across the country filed 631,000 cases and punished 627,000 people, both in the number of cases filed and the number of sanctions in 2020. The CPC's determination to manage the party and administer the party strictly to the end can be seen from this.
To be strict to the end, it is also necessary to run strict standards and measures through the entire process of strictly administering the party. Since the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the State Supervision Commission carried out the pilot work of standardizing the implementation of party discipline and government affairs punishment decisions, initial results have been formed, and the system for the implementation of punishment enforcement work will be established and improved with reference to the results within this year.
"Constant" lies in strength. The communiqué of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission pointed out that "a powerful force to oppose and punish corruption is always there." The analysis believes that the contest between corruption and anti-corruption is still raging and has shown some new characteristics of stages, and discipline inspection and supervision organs must continue to consolidate the powerful forces against and punish corruption.
Cai Esheng, a former member of the party committee and vice chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, who has reached the "age of ancient rarity", was expelled from the party, and the circular contained expressions such as "lawlessness and 'retirement without rest'"; Xie Jilai, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress, now 69, was investigated after 5 years of retirement...
In fact, the anti-corruption practice since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has long broken a series of "pseudo-laws" such as "retirement is security". It has been commented that retired officials do not have the privilege of extrajudicial immunities, which will have a great deterrent effect on incumbent officials.
In order to take the initiative to cope with the new situation and challenges in the anti-corruption struggle, the CCP has also focused on corruption control in key areas, for example, last year, "increased the intensity of anti-corruption in state-owned enterprises, finance, political science and law, grain purchase and sales, and development zone construction." He Xingxiang, former member of the party committee and vice president of the China Development Bank, was "double-opened"; Meng Xiang, former member of the Adjudication Committee of the Supreme People's Court and former director of the Executive Bureau, was "double-opened"; Xu Ming, former member of the party group and deputy director of the State Grain Administration, was expelled from the party... In recent days, many of the central management cadres who have been punished by party discipline and government affairs are from these fields.
This year's anti-corruption work still focuses on "continuing to promote the governance of corruption in the financial sector" and "deepening the special rectification of corruption in the fields of grain purchase and sales". Recently, Xu Baoyi, a former member of the party group and deputy general manager of China Reserve Grain Management Group Co., Ltd., was investigated, indicating that "anti-corruption is endless."
"Deep" lies in the direction. "Pushing the anti-corruption struggle deeper" means "opening the door" to difficult problems, such as focusing on investigating and handling corruption cases in which political and economic issues are intertwined.
In the facts of discipline and law violations by Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal CPC Committee, "colluding with capital and supporting the disorderly expansion of capital" is quite conspicuous. Some analysts said that "power and capital collusion" is an upgraded version of power and money transactions. The communiqué of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission first mentioned "cutting off the link between power and capital", involving a new stage of capital expansion and a new format for the development and growth of platform enterprises.
Some scholars pointed out that "the collusion of power and capital" is a huge hidden danger that threatens the country's economic security. In view of this new trend of corruption, it is necessary not only to enhance the ideological awareness of officials and entrepreneurs, but also to straighten out the system and mechanism and further improve the rules and order of the market economy.
Zhou Jiangyong's "double-opened" circular also contained the expression "engaging in family-style corruption." The TV special "Zero Tolerance", which was broadcast a few days ago, revealed that he and his brother were engaged in politics and business, and he used public power to help his brother in business. In addition, He Xingxiang, former member of the party committee and vice president of the China Development Bank, was also accused of "improper family style and lack of control and education of his spouse and children."
"Family-style corruption" can be described as a common stubborn disease faced by all countries in the world in corruption governance. The analysis held that it is necessary not only to severely investigate and deal with and form a deterrent, but also to make efforts in strengthening supervision, improving the system, and strengthening education, and also to vigorously strengthen the building of a culture of honest government, create a good social environment, and take multiple measures at the same time in order to eradicate the soil for the growth of "family-style corruption."
Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Wu Text Editor: Fang Ying Title Map Source: Shangguan Title Map Image Editor: Shao Jing
Source: Author: China News Service Zhang Su