General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission, stressing that we must soberly realize that the contest between corruption and anti-corruption is still raging, and has shown some new stage characteristics, that there is still a long way to go to prevent all kinds of interest groups from forming a posture and "hunting" and corrosion, that there is still a long way to go to effectively deal with the invisible mutation of corrupt means, renovation and upgrading, that there is still a long way to go, that there is still a long way to go to completely eradicate the soil where corruption breeds and to realize the cleansing of the Haiyan River, and that there is still a long way to go to clean up systemic corruption and resolve hidden risks.
Corruption is the problem that is most likely to subvert the regime, and anti-corruption is the most thorough self-revolution. On the new road to catch up with the examination, we must keep a sober mind, always blow the trumpet, and keep in mind that anti-corruption is always on the road. As long as there are soil and conditions for the problem of corruption, the phenomenon of corruption will not be eradicated and the anti-corruption struggle will not stop. We must take the initiative to deal with the new situation and new challenges in the anti-corruption struggle, maintain a strong force for opposing and punishing corruption, and unswervingly push the anti-corruption struggle to a deeper level.
1 There is still a long way to go to prevent all kinds of interest groups from forming a posture and "hunting" and corroding
The contest between corruption and anti-corruption has taken on a new stage characteristic, which is prominently manifested in the long way to go to prevent all kinds of interest groups from forming a posture and "hunting" and corroding.
Some people have ignored the party's political discipline and political rules and have vigorously engaged in gangs and gangs within the party, forming all kinds of political interest groups. The case of Sun Lijun's political gang is a typical example of this. In September 2021, Sun Lijun, a former member of the Party Committee and vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, was "double-opened", and the circular said that he "vigorously engaged in gangs and gangs within the party, pulled together gangs and factions, cultivated personal forces, formed interest groups, formed gangs to control key departments, seriously undermined the unity and unity of the party, and seriously endangered political security."
Some people have been "hunted down" by lawbreakers and have become "prey" for lawbreakers, forming political interest groups that collude with each other inside the party and outside the party and trade power for money. In January 2021, Song Jianji, former deputy secretary of the party committee and deputy director of the Inner Mongolia Banking Regulatory Bureau, was expelled from the party, and the circular said that he "colluded with illegal interest groups, bundled interests, and was willing to be an 'internal ghost'". Under the organized, premeditated, and hierarchical co-optation and corrosion of illegal enterprises, the leading group of the former Inner Mongolia Banking Regulatory Bureau fell collectively. Xue Jining, former secretary of the party committee and director of the Inner Mongolia Banking Regulatory Bureau, "discounted and made changes in the implementation of the decision-making and deployment of the party Central Committee's financial work, and gave up the duty of supervision", and when he knew that Baoshang Bank did not comply with the system of setting up branches in different places of urban commercial banks, he still submitted his consent to the former BANK, so that Baoshang Bank successfully established Shenzhen, Chengdu and Beijing branches.
Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Research Center for Building a Clean and Honest Government at Peking University, analyzed that the characteristics of the formation of interest groups in gangs are often manifested as follows: Ignoring the party's political discipline and political rules, undermining the centralized and unified leadership of the party Central Committee and the unity and unity of the party; political and economic issues are intertwined, political power and economic interests are intertwined, and the "four winds" problem and the "seven haves" are mutually infiltrated; and the consequences of the formation of interest groups in gangs are serious, which not only seriously undermines market order, but may also endanger the country's political security.
Political interest groups of all kinds are not allowed within the Party, nor are there any political interest groups within the Party that collude with each other outside the Party and trade power for money. We must resolutely eliminate corrupt elements who are intertwined with political and economic issues, persist in investigating bribery and bribery together, resolutely prevent the formation of interest groups within the party, and resolutely guard against various interest groups from "hunting down" and kidnapping leading cadres.
In order to educate and guide party members and cadres to ideologically consolidate their roots, enhance their awareness of party spirit, and enhance their ability to resist corruption and guard against degeneration, the Discipline Inspection Commission of Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, has thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission, organized party members and cadres to visit warning education bases, and guided party members and cadres to be honest in performing official duties through watching, listening, studying, and testing education, and tempering political ethics with self-restraint. Photo by Bao Yun
2 Effectively respond to the invisible mutation of corrupt means, renovation and upgrading still has a long way to go
The contest between corruption and anti-corruption has shown new phased characteristics, which are manifested in the fact that with the continuous and in-depth development of the anti-corruption struggle, the means of confrontation between corrupt elements have also gradually "upgraded", and there is still a long way to go to effectively deal with the invisible mutation and renovation and upgrading of corrupt means.
Some use "shadow companies" and "shadow shareholders" to collect and hold shares on behalf of each other to make profits. When investigating and dealing with the case of Liu Hong, former secretary of the party committee and president of PICC Investment Holding Co., Ltd., the discipline inspection and supervision team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission in Chinese Min insurance group co., Ltd., it was discovered that the boss of a certain locality had set up a company specifically for Liu Hong, and the scope of business deliberately coincided with PICC Investment Control, and Liu Hong accepted tens of millions of shares in the company in the form of holding on behalf of liu, and had collected benefit fees through the company on many occasions by signing false financial service agreements, and she herself made every effort to "coordinate" the company's cooperative development projects with local governments.
Some seek profits through "option realization", reach a tacit understanding with unscrupulous businessmen, do things tacitly, and then cash in after retirement. In October 2018, Cui Chen, former deputy director of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's Economic and Information Commission, was expelled from the party, saying that he "used the business activities of state-owned enterprises as a tool to grab private interests, engaged in 'option corruption' of incumbent benevolence and retirement returns, and solicited and accepted bribes after retirement."
Some use "elegant good" and "elegant bribery" to seek profits, accept cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, handicrafts, or high-priced "manuscript fees", "consulting fees", "review fees" and "polishing fees". Shen Hao, former secretary of the party committee and director of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co., Ltd. and former vice chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, in addition to accepting gifts and shopping cards in violation of the law, also accepted 60 collectible coins, 14 calligraphy and painting works, and 1 piece of wood carving Ruyi.
Some people handle affairs at home and collect money abroad, and some transfer stolen money abroad through underground money banks in a vain attempt to cross the sea in disguise. After Wu Zhanhui, former deputy secretary general of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee of Guangdong Province, moved his pregnant wife to Hong Kong, "without worries", he began to accept bribes and launder money through underground money banks, and before the incident, a total of 92 million Hong Kong dollars of assets were transferred overseas for the purchase of commercial housing for his wife and daughter to live.
In addition, some have put on the cloak of "invisibility" and, under the guise of "lending," "investing," and "entrusting financial management," have wantonly amassed wealth, and have made indirect profits through methods such as buying low and selling high, making false transactions, mediating mediation, and collecting deposits by banks.
However, no matter how hidden the means of corruption, they will always leave traces. In recent years, from the application of big data and other means of analysis and comparison, to the improvement of departmental coordination and cooperation mechanisms to unite the struggle, to broaden the channels of supervision and reporting to facilitate the masses to report, our party has continuously improved relevant measures to effectively improve the efficiency of anti-corruption governance. In the face of the strategic situation of heavy containment, strong high pressure, and long deterrence, any means of corruption will be hidden.
3 The task is arduous and long to completely eradicate the soil that breeds corruption and realize the cleansing of the Haiyan River
The contest between corruption and anti-corruption has shown new phased characteristics, which is manifested in the fact that the soil that breeds corruption still exists, the tasks of eliminating the stock and curbing the increment are still arduous and arduous, and the task of clearing the Haiyan River is still arduous and long.000.
The conspicuous problems of ideological impurity, political impurity, organizational impurity, and impure work style that exist within the Party have not yet been fundamentally resolved. The corruption cases published on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission show that under the unprecedented anti-corruption situation, there are still some leading cadres who do not restrain or accept after the Eighteenth or even Nineteenth National Congresses of the Party, and are willing to take chances and commit crimes against the wind.
Under the conditions of developing a socialist market economy, the principle of commodity exchange will inevitably penetrate into the life of the Party. Judging from the investigation and handling of cases, whether it is the trading of power for money, the trading of power and power, or the bribery of bribes, the purchase and sale of officials, they are all filled with the shadow of commodity exchange. A fallen official wrote in his confession: "Normal comradely relations have completely become commodity exchange relations. ”
Erroneous ideas and decadent concepts such as money worship, hedonism, and individualism still exist, and unhealthy tendencies are still rooted and growing. The feudal consciousness of "officialdom", the privileged idea of "sealing wives and shadows", the bad habit of "thousands of miles for officials only for wealth", and the corrupt way of "one person gets the tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven"; although these decadent and rotten things cannot be put on the table in a bright and upright manner, they are regarded as natural and righteous in some people's thinking, and in some places the dregs are rampant. Distorted values drive the breeding and spread of corruption, which in turn exacerbates the distortion of values.
Unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems are intertwined and intertwined, and the problems of wind and corruption, from wind to corruption, and wind and corruption are integrated, and the problem of not giving up and not converging is prominent. In September 2021, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection publicly reported ten typical cases of violating the spirit of the eight provisions of the central government, of which 5 were serious cases of violations of discipline and law in which the central management cadres changed from wind to corruption, integrated with wind and corruption, and finally punished by party discipline and state law. Unhealthy tendencies are a breeding ground for corruption, and many cadres, starting from unhealthy tendencies, have gradually embarked on the road of no return of corruption and degeneration.
The corrosion of power is long-term, and strengthening the supervision and restraint of power is an eternal issue. At present, various reforms have entered the deep water area, and the rest are hard bones to gnaw. It is necessary to overcome the chronic diseases of the system and mechanism, break through the barriers of solidification of interests, ensure that public power operates on the right track, and constantly compress the living space and breeding soil for corruption.
4 There is still a long way to go to clean up systemic corruption and resolve hidden risks
The contest between corruption and anti-corruption has shown new phased characteristics, and it is also manifested in the fact that there is still a long way to go to clean up systemic corruption and resolve hidden risks.
The problems of responsibility, corruption, and work style in the field of grain purchase and sale are conspicuous, and they have even been breeding and spreading in some places and have been cured for a long time, forming a systematic and territorial stubborn disease. In November 2021, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported ten typical cases of violations of discipline and law in the field of grain purchase and sale. Judging from the reported cases, most of the violations of discipline and law occurred after the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and even after the Nineteenth National Congress of the Party, they still did not take over, involving the competent business supervision departments and state-owned grain enterprises, covering grain procurement, storage, sales and other links, the amount of money involved, the high level of the personnel involved, and the serious harmful consequences. Since the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have promoted the solution of the problem of systematic corruption in the field of grain purchase and sale, and have achieved lasting results.
Finance is the lifeblood of the national economy, related to the national economy and people's livelihood and economic and social development in various fields, corruption in the financial sector is often intertwined with various market risks and political risks, which not only affects the role of financial functions, but also more likely to cause systemic risks. In recent years, a small number of financial practitioners and regulators have betrayed their original mission, regarded state-owned financial assets as "cash cows", and colluded with illegal businessmen to form a community of "black interests", which seriously endangered financial security, economic security and national security. With the continuous intensification of financial anti-corruption, a number of corrupt elements have been seriously investigated and punished, effectively cutting off the chain of interests colluded by regulators, employees of financial institutions and unscrupulous business owners, providing a strong guarantee for preventing and resolving risks and safeguarding national security.
In addition, corruption in the field of engineering construction, from project establishment and bidding to construction and acceptance, has been repeatedly prohibited; some leading cadres in economic development zones have not distinguished between government and enterprises, and "officials and officials have also consulted", and the amount of money involved is huge.
In view of the conspicuous phenomenon of systemic corruption in some fields, the communiqué of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission demanded that major corruption cases be resolutely investigated and handled, cases of corruption intertwined with political and economic problems seriously investigated and dealt with, and the anti-corruption efforts in the fields of state-owned enterprises, finance, political science and law, grain purchase and sales, and the construction of development zones should be intensified, and the reform and treatment of cases should be promoted in a down-to-earth manner.
5 Take the initiative to respond to the new situation and new challenges in the anti-corruption struggle, always maintain a new normal of opposing corruption, suppressing corruption, and investigating and handling together, forming a virtuous circle of punishing evil and promoting good, and rectifying and curing at the same time
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the anti-corruption struggle has won an overwhelming victory and comprehensively consolidated, entering a stage of deterrence that has always maintained zero tolerance, and has been normalized in which corruption must be opposed, corruption must be suppressed, and investigation and punishment are discovered, forming a virtuous circle of punishing evil and promoting good, and rectifying and curing at the same time.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Discipline Inspection Commission made arrangements for "maintaining a powerful force to oppose and punish corruption and unswervingly pushing the anti-corruption struggle to the depth." We must strengthen our political determination, unswervingly adhere to the strict main tone, keep the overwhelming force of corruption in politics, ideology, organization, and system always exist, accurately grasp the characteristics of the anti-corruption struggle in stages, thoroughly study the current forms, characteristics, and manifestations of corruption, enhance our ability to discover and respond to new problems and new trends in a timely manner, continue to deepen the integration of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and exert efforts to punish deterrence, institutional restraint, and consciousness enhancement, and accurately apply policies and target treatment, and grasp it to the end without stopping and grasping it to the end.
The powerful forces that maintain opposition to and punish corruption are always there. In January 2022, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission published the news that Zhang Yongze, vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Government, Wang Bin, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of Chinese Life Insurance (Group) Company, Liu Hongwu, vice chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Government, Wang Minghui, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, Xu Baoyi, former member of the party group and deputy general manager of China Grain Storage Company, Xie Jilai, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress, song Xibin, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress, and other central management cadres were subject to review and investigation. We should continue to send out a strong signal that we should carry out the building of a sound party style and a clean administration and the anti-corruption struggle to the end and that we would never collect troops unless we won a complete victory.
Tighten the cage of the system, and integrate the rectification of discipline and the fight against corruption with the deepening of reform, the improvement of the system, the promotion of governance, and the promotion of development. Since the beginning of this year, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have promoted the integration of case handling, rectification, and governance, summed up common problems from the cases investigated and handled, analyzed the deep-seated causes, found problems and weak links in institutional mechanisms and supervision and management, put forward discipline inspection and supervision suggestions, urged the development of special governance, promoted the transformation of punishment results into the results of curing the root causes, and enhanced the comprehensive effect of anti-corruption.
Educate and guide party members and cadres to ideologically consolidate their roots, enhance their awareness of party spirit, and enhance their ability to resist corruption and guard against degeneration. From successively holding education on the theme of "Ode to Honesty and Honesty" to carry forward the culture of reverence for virtue and honesty, to using "people around them" and "things around them" to carry out warning education, to studying and formulating opinions on strengthening the building of a culture of honesty and honesty in the new era, and on the implementation opinions on further strengthening the building of a family and family style, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have continuously consolidated the fundamentals of not wanting to be corrupt, and educated and guided the broad masses of party members and cadres to strengthen their foundations with ideals and convictions, to temper party spirit with revolutionary culture, to enlighten their minds with traditional culture, and to strengthen their character with lofty morality To temper political ethics with self-restraint.
( Han Yadong)
Source: Website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission