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Friday 22 May 2009
Graft-buster calls for cadre scrutiny
The Communist Party has underlined the importance of combating corruption through stricter regulation of the appointment of officials - the root of the problem.
The Communist Party has underlined the importance of combating corruption through stricter regulation of the appointment of officials - the root of the problem.
Li Yuanchao, minister of the Organisation Department under the Central Committee of the Communist Party, said that from the recruitment to promotion of cadres, it was essential to use “systems and mechanisms to stem rampant ‘unwritten rules of the game’”.
He was addressing a national conference discussing the supervision of cadres.
Paying for positions, selling posts for personal gain or attaining a job through relatives, teachers or friends are common methods of climbing the bureaucratic ladder.
Despite an improvement in recent years, malpractice and corruption in appointments was still considered a major problem by law-abiding cadres and the public, Mr. Li said. Many unsuitable cadres - whether incompetent or corrupt - were often allowed to remain in office, or even gain promotion.
Reforms have been implemented to make appointments more transparent and to expand the role of public opinion. However, experts say the effect of these requirements is often weakened during implementation. Observers told Caijing magazine that the lack of a mechanism to hold to account those making final recruitment or promotion decisions was one reason; the superficial seeking of public approval was another.
“There must be more details on how to apply the requirements, as well as better supervision of the application of the requirements,” said Mao Shoulong, public administration professor at Renmin University.
For example, the issues of who was qualified to sit on the election committee, how they carried out that power and how public opinion was to be incorporated into the election process must all be set out.
Jiang Mingan , law professor of Peking University, also called for direct elections of village-level cadres to be expanded to county level, as a critical means of combating corruption.
To raise the standard of cadres at the lowest administrative level, Beijing revamped its campaign last year to recruit university graduates to work in the villages, with the goal of having at least one university- educated cadre in each village.
Xinhua reported yesterday that Beijing had confirmed the recruitment of 20,000 more graduates this year. At least 80 per cent of recruits must be party members and have postgraduate degrees.
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Graft-buster calls for cadre scrutiny
Ng Tze-wei
22 May 2009
The Communist Party has underlined the importance of combating corruption through stricter regulation of the appointment of officials - the root of the problem.
Li Yuanchao, minister of the Organisation Department under the Central Committee of the Communist Party, said that from the recruitment to promotion of cadres, it was essential to use “systems and mechanisms to stem rampant ‘unwritten rules of the game’”.
He was addressing a national conference discussing the supervision of cadres.
Paying for positions, selling posts for personal gain or attaining a job through relatives, teachers or friends are common methods of climbing the bureaucratic ladder.
Despite an improvement in recent years, malpractice and corruption in appointments was still considered a major problem by law-abiding cadres and the public, Mr. Li said. Many unsuitable cadres - whether incompetent or corrupt - were often allowed to remain in office, or even gain promotion.
Reforms have been implemented to make appointments more transparent and to expand the role of public opinion. However, experts say the effect of these requirements is often weakened during implementation. Observers told Caijing magazine that the lack of a mechanism to hold to account those making final recruitment or promotion decisions was one reason; the superficial seeking of public approval was another.
“There must be more details on how to apply the requirements, as well as better supervision of the application of the requirements,” said Mao Shoulong, public administration professor at Renmin University.
For example, the issues of who was qualified to sit on the election committee, how they carried out that power and how public opinion was to be incorporated into the election process must all be set out.
Jiang Mingan , law professor of Peking University, also called for direct elections of village-level cadres to be expanded to county level, as a critical means of combating corruption.
To raise the standard of cadres at the lowest administrative level, Beijing revamped its campaign last year to recruit university graduates to work in the villages, with the goal of having at least one university- educated cadre in each village.
Xinhua reported yesterday that Beijing had confirmed the recruitment of 20,000 more graduates this year. At least 80 per cent of recruits must be party members and have postgraduate degrees.
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