Zhu Urges Efforts to Continue Anti-Corruption Campaign

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Zhu Urges Efforts to Continue Anti-Corruption Campaign

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Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has told governments at all levels to continue the campaign to crack down on corruption and work hard to build a more honest and respectable government, in an address at a State Council anti-corruption meeting.

The central government has given priority to building a clean and honest government and substantial achievements were made in the nationwide anti-corruption campaign last year, bringing a number of officials to justice, Zhu said.

However, the premier warned that many problems still exist in the course of building a clean and honest government. He cited such abuses as extravagance, government waste, embezzlement, misuse of the law, and arbitrary fines and fee collections as the most prominent headaches.

Three focuses on anti-corruption campaign

Zhu said that the anti-corruption campaign will focus on three aspects this year:

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-- Government organizations at all levels should set up budgetsfor revenue and expenditure separately. Efforts should be made to enhance audit supervision.

-- Government departments should standardize and simplify the examination and approval procedures for projects.

-- Government departments and officials should formulate the codes and rules of public biddings to prevent illegal activities.

Zhu said that public biddings should be conducted according to the market system, and government officials will be severely punished if they seek private advantage by interfering in public biddings.

Wei Jianxing, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee,and vice-premiers Li Lanqing, Qian Qichen, Wu Bangguo and Wen Jiabao attended the meeting, along with other high-ranking officials.

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The Communist Party of China (CPC) has pledged to take stricter measures to improve the Party's work style and prevent corrupt activities by leading officials. The measures were worked out at the Seventh Plenary Meeting of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which was convened here January 23-25, according to a communique adopted at the end of the meeting.

The meeting examined and approved a work report delivered by Wei Jianxing on behalf of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Full Story

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Anti-corruption is a common task facing the whole world and China will as before conduct a resolute struggle against corruption in the new century, said a senior Chinese official Wednesday in Prague.

The Chinese Government has always believed that to combat corruption and build a clean government is an important guarantee for the smooth development of reform, opening-up and modernization drive. Full Story

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