The Central Party School the training center for high-ranking
members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is compiling its
first anti-corruption textbook which is expected to be included in
the curriculum, officials said.
The compilation of the textbook follows a call by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC, for
strengthened ethics education among officials at all levels to root
out corruption at the annual work meeting of the CPC Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection the Party's anti-corruption
watchdog last December.
Su Rong, vice-president of the school, said a special team was
set up shortly after that meeting and work has basically
concluded.
Vice-President Zeng Qinghong, also president of the school,
attaches great importance to the compiling of the textbook, Su
said.
"This will be the first systematic, formal and exclusive
textbook on anti-corruption in the history of the Central Party
School," Hou Shaohua, deputy director of the Teaching Department of
the school, told China Daily.
Anti-corruption is part of the teaching content in the school,
such as special classes with an anti-corruption theme, but there
has been no specific textbook, Hou said.
"Ethical and moral education is also part of the textbook," he
added.
Many of the corrupt officials, charged with huge sum of
briberies or embezzlement, were often found to have led a decadent
life.
(China Daily March 20, 2007)