BEIJING: The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee recently issued a set of guidelines on intensified supervision on Chief officials and leadership teams at all levels, in a bid to further strengthen the Party and enhance discipline.
This is the first such measure adopted by the CPC particularly aimed at the oversight of chief officials and leadership teams, also known as the “key few.”
Deemed a crucial step in cracking the hard nut of supervision on chief officials and members of the leadership teams, the document stressed that the intensity of supervision on officials should be commensurate with their duties and positions.
Supervision of the chief officials is of paramount importance to intraparty oversight as their violation of disciplinary rules and laws can entail serious corruption. Correspondingly, the guidelines prescribe specific stipulations on enhancing supervision on the chief officials while stressing disciplinary supervision on those at a lower level of the hierarchy.
It also calls for voluntary acceptance of supervision by chief officials, asking them to take the lead in engaging in criticism and self-criticism and set examples of self-discipline.
Highlighting political oversight, the guidelines lay out five criteria for scrutinizing chief officials and leadership teams including their loyalty to the Party and conforming with the Party’s nature and purpose. – Agencies
