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BEIJING. – Political discipline should be further enhanced and factions within the Communist Party of China (CPC) that are organised for personal gain are “absolutely not tolerated,” a key meeting of the CPC was told.
“Despite a certain amount of control over undesirable work styles and corruption, the entire party should keep its cool in the still arduous and complicated anti-graft fight,” said a statement released yesterday after a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
“Discipline should be put in a more prominent position so as to strengthen restraints on party officials and members through strict and clear rules.”
“Organising cliques within the party to run personal businesses is absolutely not tolerated,” it said.
The meeting also scheduled the fifth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) for January 12 to 14.
The meeting was presided over by President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
The statement urged maintaining a “high-voltage” crackdown to persistently stem undesirable work styles and corruption, calling on tenacity and patience for a long-term campaign.
“For those violating discipline despite the crackdown, violators must be punished, and the responsibilities of their leaders should also be pursued,” it said, stressing the role of discipline inspections and party committees at all levels in the fight against corruption.
It urged disciplinary inspection organs to foster a team of officials that are “brave, loyal and clean-handed” for the anti-graft campaign.
During yesterday’s meeting, attendees also reviewed a guideline on strengthening the construction of a socialist consultative democracy.
According to the statement, the CPC will improve the country’s socialist consultative democracy system to better collect the people’s opinions and unite the people’s force and wisdom to ensure scientific and democratic decision-making. – Xinhua.
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