Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji told government organizations at all levels Thursday to be vigilant in stamping out corruption and work hard to build a more honest and respectable government.

At a State Council anti-corruption meeting, Zhu said that "we represent the people and it is up to us to promote a healthy and honest government".

Wei Jianxing, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of Communist Party of China Central Committee, vice premiers Li Lanqing, Qian Qichen and Wen Jiabao attended the meeting, as well as other high-ranking officials and ministers such as Luo Gan, Wu Yi, Ismail Amat and Wang Zhongyu.

A nationwide anti-corruption campaign was initiated last year and it has been a major priority for the central government, Zhu said. Substantial achievements have been made in the anti-corruption campaign to date with a number of officials brought to justice.

However, Zhu warned that there are many problems that still exist in building a clean and honest government. He specified extravagance, government waste, embezzlement, abusing the law, and arbitrary fines and fee collections as the most prominent. "Some officials working at grass-roots levels even bully people," Zhu said.

To solve these problems, Zhu detailed the following anti-corruption measures:

-- self-discipline among top government officials. They must also consider the conduct and behavior of their spouses, children and secretaries.

-- Government supervisory departments shall intensify their crackdown on illegal activities of officials. No individual or government department involved in such cases will be pardoned.

-- Special campaigns shall be launched to address heated public complaints against certain administrative law-enforcement agencies, government-monopoly industries and public service departments.

-- extravagance and government waste will not be allowed.

-- restructuring the State Council should be consolidated while advancing the restructuring of local governments. Government management must also undergo reforms. Local governments must also formulate codes of conduct and publish them for all to see.

Government bodies shall observe the Party's new anti-corruption responsibility system, which stipulates that a top official be held responsible for major corruption cases in the organization under his jurisdiction.

He said that higher standards should be set for the central government departments in Beijing in this anti-corruption campaign. Governments at all levels and all administrative departments must support the campaign.