CHINA-INTERNAL: ANTI-CORRUPTION
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A Global Times article on May 12, 2016, publicised details of the functioning of the the Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC), the Party's anti-corruption outfit. It said in order to help inspection teams discover problems within a brief time frame, a provincial government inspection office will first perform preparatory work, collecting tips from the public and other clues that will later be distributed to 10 inspection teams according to their assignments, said a report published on the official website of the Communist Party of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on May 11. Taking the Hunan Province Party committee's inspection team as an example, the report explained the team normally spends a month on an inspection tour to an institution directly under the provincial or county government and two months inspecting a prefecture-level city. The inspection office provides each inspection team member with a laptop specially manufactured to ensure confidentiality and marked with a sticker reminding the inspector to keep secrets. During an inspection tour, all laptops of an inspection team are collected and kept in a specially designed safe when not in use. The notebooks in which inspectors take down interview notes are specially designed and are sealed and kept in a safe once an inspection tour is completed. Inspectors normally are not allowed to tear out any of the notebooks' pages, which are numbered. Zhuang Deshui, Deputy Director of the Anti-Corruption Research Center at Peking University, told Global Times:
"Confidentiality is important in the inspection process. The discipline inspection department has higher confidentiality requirements than other departments. Inspectors' work plan and the minutes of interviews conducted by inspectors must be strictly kept secret in order to protect the interviewees, especially people who give tip-offs." Due to confidentiality requirements, the inspectors are required to conduct all their activities, including eating, conducting interviews and receiving visitors, only in the place in which they are stationed. He added that the inspection team is banned from accepting any accommodation offered by the institution under inspection so as to prevent corruption.
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