Corruption is the biggest threat. Of China communist party, President Xi Jinping In a clear warning on Monday, the ruling party is determined to tackle a long-standing problem that now grips many sections of Chinese society.
China was rocked by last year Corruption investigation Senior figures range from the deputy governor of the central bank to the former chairman of its largest oil and gas company, struggling to gain a foothold and struggling to gain a sense of eroding wealth. Increased anxiety in the society.
The list includes one. High Chinese AdmiralMiao Hua, whose fall from grace comes at a time when Beijing is trying to modernize its armed forces and boost its war readiness.
Not only corruption is still rampant. Chinait is actually on the rise, Xi said at the start of a three-day congress of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the country’s top anti-corruption watchdog.
He warned that corruption is the biggest threat to our party.
To illustrate the scale of the problem, the CCDI said in recent days that a record 58 “lions,” or top officials, were investigated last year.
Of those investigated, 47 were at vice-ministerial level or above, including Tang Renjian, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Guo Zhongwen, former head of the General Administration of Sport.
Even former high-ranking officials were not spared, such as Wang Yilen, who resigned as chairman of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation when he reached retirement age in 2020.
Andrew Weidman, a professor at Georgia State University, said the crackdown would continue.
“I don’t see how XI can afford to back down at this point,” Weidman said. “A dozen years after he set out to purge the senior ranks, Xi Jinping is still finding widespread corruption in the Party state and the PLA.”
Of China People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has also been swept up in a wave of clean-up from 2023. Li Shangfu was removed as defense minister after seven months and his predecessor Wei Fenghe was expelled from the party for “serious violations of discipline”, a euphemism for corruption. is
Weidman said it appears that the pool that Eleven is changing includes corrupt officials.
“If Xi is promoting corrupt officials, it suggests that the party’s internal vetting apparatus is not working effectively or, more seriously, is itself corrupt.”
China acknowledges that its anti-corruption efforts face new challenges, with traditional forms of corruption such as accepting cash becoming increasingly frowned upon.
“A businessman can offer me money directly, and I will refuse,” said Fan Yifei, a former deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China who has been sentenced to death with a two-year grace period.
“But if he gives it in the form of stocks or other assets, not directly to me but to my family, that’s a completely different matter,” state media quoted Fan as saying.
Even lowly “bees” and “ants” in China’s vast bureaucracy will not be spared, a national television broadcaster showed on Sunday.
The first of four episodes of “Fighting Corruption for the People” before the CCDI meeting focused on grassroots corruption, including a case of how a primary school principal stole campus food from kickbacks. benefited and another is how a village official took bribes from farm project contractors.
“Compared to the ‘lions’ of the past, the public feels more strongly about the corruption around them,” said Sun Leibin, a professor at Peking University’s School of Marxism.
He said in the program that the fight against corruption must reach the “hearts” of the people, so that they can “deeply feel” the care of the party.