According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission on April 24, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission notified the supervision, inspection, review and investigation of the national discipline inspection and supervision organs in the first quarter of 2024. In the first quarter of 2024, discipline inspection and supervision organs across the country filed a total of 149,000 cases and punished 121,000 people, including 12 provincial and ministerial-level cadres.
In the first quarter of 2024, discipline inspection and supervision organs across the country received a total of 808,000 petition reports, including 212,000 petition reports of reports and accusations. 403,000 clues were handled. 149,000 cases were filed, including 16 provincial and ministerial-level cadres, 983 department-level cadres, 6,695 county-level cadres, and 21,000 township-level cadres.
13,000 people are currently or former secretaries of village party branches and directors of village committees. 121,000 people were punished, including 99,000 for party discipline and 34,000 for government affairs, 12 cadres at the provincial and ministerial level, 948 cadres at the department and bureau level, 6,241 cadres at the county and department level, 17,000 cadres at the township and section level, 16,000 general cadres, and 81,000 other personnel in rural areas and enterprises.
In handling cases, discipline inspection and supervision organs persisted in investigating bribery and bribery together, filing cases against 4,894 people and transferring 911 people to the procuratorate.
In 2023, a total of 610,000 people will be punished, including 498,000 party discipline sanctions, 162,000 government sanctions, 49 provincial and ministerial-level cadres, and 3,144 department-level cadres. 17,000 people were registered for bribery, and 3,389 were transferred to the procuratorate.
For a long time, corruption has been a serious challenge to China's economy and society. Although the Chinese Government has been committed to cracking down on corruption and has made certain achievements, there is still a big gap in achieving the goal of completely eradicating corruption, and the task of fighting corruption in the future is arduous and the task is heavy and the road is heavy.
The harmfulness of corruption is multifaceted, mainly in its social, political, economic and moral impact.
1. Corruption undermines the trust mechanism of society. When public officials, especially high-ranking officials, become corrupt, they undermine the credibility of the government and lead to distrust of the law and the government.
2. Corruption will lead to ineffective implementation of national laws and policies, damage the public interest, undermine social order, and threaten national stability.
3. Corruption will erode the country's economic foundation, increase the illegal cost of enterprises through bribery, misappropriation and other means, thereby affecting the country's macroeconomic development.
4. Corruption can also poison the social atmosphere and spread immoral and illegal behavior patterns, especially for teenagers, who may imitate corrupt behaviors in the adult world and have a negative impact on social values.
5. Corruption will also lead to social injustice and the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and undermine social harmony and stability.
It can be seen that corruption not only harms the long-term interests of the country and the well-being of citizens, weakens the credibility of the government, but also threatens social fairness, justice and the foundation of the rule of law. On the mainland, corruption is not limited to government agencies, but also permeates the economic sphere and all levels of society. The existence of corrupt officials leads to the waste of resources and unfair distribution, depriving the people of their well-being.
As the ruling party, the Communist Party of China shoulders the heavy responsibility of leading the country to realize the dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Because the corruption of political parties not only erodes itself, but also damages the body of the country and, more importantly, hurts the people's will.
Whether it is some high-ranking leading cadres who wantonly corrupt and degenerate, or petty corruption at the grassroots level, squandering at will, and devouring the people's fat and cream, the common people are full of complaints and even lose confidence in government departments.
Corruption has caused huge economic losses to China. According to expert surveys, the current types of corruption are mainly rent-seeking, underground economy, tax drain, and public expenditure. Official statistics show that in the second half of the 90s, from 1999 to 2001, the economic losses and consumer welfare losses caused by these four types of corruption alone averaged between 987.5 billion yuan and 1,257 billion yuan per year, accounting for 14.5%-14.9% of China's total GDP.
Corruption has taken on a new character
Since the beginning of reform and opening up, corruption has become more and more intense. In recent years, the corruption cases investigated and dealt with have a common characteristic, that is, "the people do not sue and the officials do not prosecute." The vast majority of corrupt officials reported on Douyin to lead to the fall, and there are very few cases that rely on the initiative of the regulatory authorities to investigate and deal with them. Almost all of them are corruption nest types, or what can be called "collapse" corruption.
If one official is investigated and punished, a group can be brought out. The characteristics of familial corruption are obvious, and formal spouses, informal spouses, children and their relatives are mostly involved. Discipline inspection departments generally only publicize the bribery of corrupt officials, and do not disclose other situations to the public.
Specifically, it is manifested in the following four aspects:
1. The number of corrupt people is increasing
The number of corrupt people was 194 in 1988, rising to 3,269 in 2002 and 610,000 in 2023. Since the 16 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more than 100 senior provincial and ministerial-level officials have been put on trial, which is unprecedented. Discipline inspection and supervision departments at all levels across the country give about 1.6 percent of the total number of Party members Party discipline sanctions each year, and the total number of Party members transferred to judicial organs for criminal responsibility accounts for about 0.17 percent of the total number of Party members.
2. The amount of embezzlement is getting bigger and bigger
In the past, corruption was taken as a unit, but now corruption has been calculated in hundreds of millions of dollars. The state has set up an inspection team to fight corruption, and as a result, some members of the inspection team have also been dragged into the water, and they themselves have become corrupt elements. Because, there are only a few people in the inspection team, and it is easy to take them down through bribery.
3. Corruption spreads to the middle and high-level levels
In 1985, 635 cadres at the prefectural and departmental level and 74 at the provincial and ministerial levels were investigated and punished, and in 2023, 49 cadres at the provincial and ministerial level and 3,144 cadres at the department and bureau level will be punished.
According to the data on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, in the 11 years from 2013 to 2023, the number of fallen cadres in the central management is: 18, 38, 34, 22, 18, 23, 20, 18, 25, 32, and 45. Among them, 2023 is the strongest year of "fighting tigers", with 45 tigers being investigated, followed by 2014, with 38 tigers being investigated.
4. Corrupt officials flee abroad
In recent years, in order to avoid the scrutiny of the discipline inspection department, corrupt officials have resorted to the method of transferring assets and moving abroad, in a vain attempt to escape legal punishment. Data shows that since 2014, the mainland has recovered 10,668 fugitives from more than 120 countries and regions, and recovered 44.79 billion yuan of stolen money, of which 61 of the 100 "red notices" have been arrested. In 2023, 1,278 fugitives were recovered.
The so-called "100 red notices" refer to the 100 "red notices" announced by the National Central Bureau of Interpol China in April 2015.
Not long ago, Hong Kong economist Lu Qiyuan pointed out that corruption is a major culprit for China's failure to take off. He stressed that corruption not only causes damage to the public interest, but also directly hinders the accumulation and fair distribution of wealth. This topic has aroused widespread concern and discussion in the society.
1. Corruption directly erodes the wealth of the country and society. Greedy officials have misused public resources, resulting in wasted and misuse of funds, making it difficult for governments to effectively invest in key areas such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure. This behavior not only curtails the growth of the country's wealth, but also causes people to suffer direct losses, thereby reducing the overall level of economic development of the country.
2. Corruption hinders the fair distribution of wealth. Corrupt officials at all levels have acquired enormous wealth through improper means, but these ill-gotten gains are often used to meet the needs of individuals or specific classes, rather than benefiting the whole population. This inevitably leads to an uneven distribution of wealth, increased social class divisions, and the inability of most people to share in the dividends of China's economic growth, thus making it more difficult for ordinary people to accumulate wealth.
3. Corruption may lead to an unstable investment environment, resulting in the loss of domestic and foreign capital. Foreign investors value a country's investment environment, and if corruption is widespread in the country, it will increase investment risks and reduce investment willingness in the country.
The performance of China's stock market is a typical example, in recent years, because A-shares have formed a fraudulent ecological chain, completely reduced to a tool for listed companies to make money, and become a pure financing market with no investment value. Therefore, foreign capital has fled the Chinese stock market, and the loss of capital will not only exacerbate the lack of liquidity in the stock market, but also affect the stable development of the economy, and have a negative impact on people's income levels and quality of life.
To sum up, the problem of corruption has become a serious challenge to China's economic development, and solving the problem of corruption has become an urgent task for the Chinese government. However, judging from the current situation, China still has a long way to go to achieve the anti-corruption goal of "not daring to be corrupt, not wanting to be corrupt, and not being able to be corrupt".
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