Hu
Jintao, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Committee, urged Party officials to study and abide by the
Party Constitution to fight corruption Friday in Beijing.
Hu made the remarks at the sixth plenary session of the CPC
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which opened
Thursday.
In the speech, he said that the campaign to improve the Party's
work style, build clean government and fight corruption has scored
new results and seen sound development momentum.
But he stressed that the campaign, given its arduous and
long-term nature, must be carried out unswervingly to ensure the
socialist cause advances on a right track.
"A major conclusion can be drawn by summing up the experience of
Party building including work style building and anti-corruption
drive. That is the whole Party should always study, abide by,
implement and safeguard the Party Constitution to ensure it will
always advance in the correct direction."
Hu outlined the tasks for the discipline inspection departments:
implementing the scientific concept of development, addressing
outstanding problems that hurt the public interests, intensifying
anti-corruption education of leading Party cadres, severely
punishing violators of Party discipline and those abusing powers
for personal gains, cracking down on commercial bribery, and
sticking to reform to push anti-corruption efforts by institutional
improvement and innovation.
Discipline inspection departments at all levels should take a
leading role in studying and implementing the Party Constitution,
resolutely curb all practices that go against the Constitution and
properly handling the relations between punishing and preventing
corruption, he said.
Besides Hu, Wu
Bangguo, Wen
Jiabao, Jia
Qinglin, Zeng
Qinghong, Huang Ju,
Wu
Guanzheng, Li
Changchun and Luo Gan,
all members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee, also attended the meeting, which was
chaired by Wu Guanzheng, also secretary of the CPC Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection.
(Xinhua News Agency January 7, 2006)