Xi's anti-corruption resolution arouses public expectations (3)

IMPROVING WORK

Experts also highlighted Xi's call for a better working style among CPC members.

"Undesirable practices, if unaddressed, will evolve to become an invisible wall that separates the CPC from the people," Xi said, urging all CPC organs and members to make more efforts to be frugal, oppose ostentation and reject hedonism and extravagance.

Professor Wang Yukai at the Chinese Academy of Governance said studies of previous corruption cases have shown that the majority of corruption stemmed from a poor working style.

"Xi's speech revealed a close connection between the improvement of working styles and the fight against corruption," Wang said.

A Dec. 4, 2012 meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee resulted in the issuance of eight bureaucracy- and formalism-fighting guidelines to curb extravagance and improve officials' working styles.