FOUR PRIORITIES IN ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT SET OUT

BEIJING, OCTOBER 30 /SRNA/ - The Communist Party of China /CPC/ has set out four areas of focus in the fight against corruption in a resolution adopted at a plenary session of the CPC Central Committee.

Deputy Secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Zhang Fuhai said that since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, discipline inspection and supervision bodies across the country have handled 8.105 million cases and punished 7.922 million people, including 963 officials registered with and supervised by the CPC Central Committee.

The four areas include maintaining a firm stance against corruption, strengthening control and oversight of the exercise of power, strengthening the cultural and ethical foundations for upholding integrity and rejecting corruption, and advancing coordinated efforts to prevent corruption by eliminating the audacity, opportunity and desire for it, China Media Group reported.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing from October 26 to 29 and adopted the Resolution of the CPC Central Committee on Certain Major Issues Concerning Persisting in Exercising Full and Rigorous Party Self-Governance.

Vice President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee Xie Chuntao said the resolution sets specific requirements for "ensuring the implementation of institutions".

"The resolution stresses that mandatory institutional requirements must be implemented, with everyone equal before the institutions, no one enjoying privileges in observing them and no exceptions in enforcing them," Xie said.

He added that it requires institutions to be implemented and supervised throughout the entire process of Party organizations, Party members and officials performing their duties, ensuring they remain authoritative at all times and effective everywhere.

The resolution, he stressed, calls for resolutely correcting practices in which directives are ignored and prohibitions are violated.