CHINA-CDIC: CENTRAL DISCIPLINE INSPECTION COMMISSION CONCLUDES ITS FIFTH PLENARY SESSION

The People's Daily (January 25) reported that the Fifth Plenary Session of the CCP's 19th Central Discipline Inspection Commission was held in Beijing from January 22 to 24, 2021. 133 members of the CDIC and 253 people attending this plenary meeting. The Plenum elected Yu Qiuhong and Fu Kui as deputy party secretaries and standing committee members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. People’s Daily also published the communiqué of the CDIC's Fifth plenum, which emphasised eight points on enhancing discipline and inspection work for building a modern socialist country. These were: (i) all must implement the “two defends,” study and apply Xi Jinping Thought and Marxist theories. All work must be united around party leadership with Xi Jinping at the core, more tightly than before. All work should revolve around promoting high-quality development, improving people’s standard of living, and enhancing epidemic prevention and control efforts and economic recovery; (ii) resolutely deepen the anti-corruption struggle, simultaneously promoting a system in which officials “do not dare to be corrupt,” “are not able to be corrupt,” and “do not want to be corrupt.” Anti-corruption oversight must deepen in state-owned enterprises, infrastructure building, public resource trading, science and technology management, and the financial sector; (iii) all must further rectify formalism and bureaucratism. Hedonism and extravagance must be strictly punished. Leading cadres must adhere to the regulations regarding business activities of their family members. Abuse of privilege must be strictly restrained; (iv) continue rectifying corruption among the masses so that fairness and justice can be delivered to the people and people’s legal rights can be protected. Anti-corruption must be enhanced in food and drug safety, social security, education, healthcare, and law enforcement. The fight against “protective umbrellas” and dark and evil forces must be resolute; (v) inspection of the provincial- and municipal-levels must be enhanced. Such inspections should be also extended to the local grassroots level; (vi) various types of inspection and oversight mechanisms should be integrated in order to strengthen the efficacy of such efforts. Vigilance must be paid to behaviours such as buying and selling government posts and buying votes. All must adhere to regulations on protecting party cadre rights; (vii) deepen inspection and oversight reform in order to perfect intra-party regulations and national supervision; and (viii) disciplinary work cadres must exercise self-monitoring and self-restraint. They must strengthen their political thought and their knowledge of discipline regulations. Only by setting an example can the country have an iron army of discipline and inspection workers.





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