CHINA-INTERNAL:CCP DISCIPLINE
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The Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) has stepped-up a campaign against so-called “naked officials” (a term used to describe Communist Party cadres who live in the mainland while their spouses and children stay abroad). The CCP CC's Organization Department, that oversees staffing and promotion of party members, issued a notice earlier this year asking all regional party committees to make a list of “naked officials” and their specific situations. It for the first time made clear that these officials cannot be promoted to a number of vital posts. Since 2010, some 1,000 “naked officials” have been identified in southern China’s Guangdong province. Many of these cadres have their wives and children living in Hong Kong, Australia, the United States or Canada. Xinhua reports that a dozen provinces including Fujian and Zhejiang – where many Chinese expatriates and immigrants came from – will have similar surveys and all information will be reported to the department by year-end. All the identified officials will be removed from senior positions within the local party committees, local committees of the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, local party commissions for discipline inspection as well as local courts and procuratorates. In addition, positions related to the military, diplomacy, national security, finance and organizational affairs will also be closed to these officials. If such officials are already in these positions, they will have two choices: they either ask their spouse or children to go back home or be transferred to a much lower rank. The new directive applies to all officials and civil servants in the country since virtually all of them are Communist Party members.
Meanwhile, to curb the stream of unauthorized emigration by Chinese provincial officials and prevent them from leaving the country, Chinese authorities are confiscating their passports. In Tieling of Liaoning Province, all officials above deputy section level have been instructed to turn in their passports to the local government. Any official who plans to go abroad will have to first get approval “from above.” Similar instructions have been issued in Changchun, Jilin Province and Shenzhen. Zhejiang Province has directed all officials above deputy section level and all officials with the Public Security, the Judiciary, and the Procuratorate turn in their passports and exit-entry permits, for traveling to and from Hong Kong and Macau, to the local governments. In September 2011, in Shanghai and the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Fujian, local authorities began to hunt down officials who had escaped and took measures to prevent officials from escaping.
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