War on graft: Zero tolerance for corruption fuelled Beijing’s rise
The three most effective tools in China’s war on corruption are monitoring, transparency, and the most lethal deterrent to corruption – death penalty.
Communist Party of China (CPC) invited journalists from six neighbouring courtiers to brief them about its war on corruption on July 5, at the provincial capital of Guangdong, Guangzhou - the third largest city of China.
Being first to open the doors for foreign enterprise it also took lead in adopting the anti-corruption initiatives of the CPC. The CPC affairs are open through media and are strengthened through transparency to nullify the impression that ‘war on corruption’ is a tool to gain political mileage among party members.
Monitoring
The work of eight million party members in the city is monitored through multi-layered checks of 22,000 supervisory personnel in Guangzhou who are also under a check.
“There are no party (CPC) members with privileges no matter how high are their positions and how much services have they rendered,” said Wang Xingning, director general of Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection during the briefing.
“Party members are required to inform about the status of their children and spouse who are living abroad or visiting abroad,” he said.
“No…there is no concept of dual nationality in China,” said the commissioner in response to a query. It limits the options to escape accountability.
Death penalty for corruption
Xingning said there is no concept of mercy for those found guilty of corruption. Several officials of the director general rank have been given death penalty for corruption, he said.
In all, 2,300 cases of abuse of power have been decided since adoption of the anti-corruption initiative in 1997. “We have recovered three billion RMB lost in corruption,” he said. “There is a hotline for people to lodge their complaints,” he said. Generally a case, after the complaint, is decided within three months.
Transparency
Since Guangzhou is growing with every passing day, the Guangzhou Construction Project Bidding Center was founded to ensure open, fair and equitable construction environment and to improve the quality of construction.
Supervised by the CPC, the centre provides all services to bidders under one roof. “We complete the bidding process of every small and mega project in 20 days,” said Fun Qun, Director Bidding Centre. Everything related to bidding process is open and is evaluated by a panel of experts without fear or favour. State owned enterprises compete in the open market with others, the director added. “The centre has completed 38,631 bids and there is no complaint,” he added.
Awareness
Awareness and education of the youth, during their study at university is another remarkable Chinese tool to combat corruption and this is being done at Beijing Normal University Zhuhai (BNUZ).
Professor Wei Tang said that anti-corruption activities helped promoting the self discipline and perseverance that will hopefully prevent the youth from developing a corrupt mentality.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 21st, 2012.
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It's an encouraging sign that China combats corruption. In a country where the wealth gap is getting wider all the time, resentments are deep when ordinary citizens see how officials enrich themselves at the expense of social grievances.
A complete plan to eliminate corruption and hence to progress is already there to be adopted by any other nation desiring to progress and uproot corruption. However, I'm afraid Pakistanis might not be the one such nation in the near future. When the singular motivation of all the oligarchs of the country to come into power is to make as much money as possible, then there is no hope they will adopt such a model resulting in their own demise. The problem is not that our leadership is corrupt and inapt but the real tragedy is that our masses are totally indifferent to the plunder of these oligarchs working under the cover of democracy. They keep on shouting "Jiay Bhutto" and "Sher Aya" no matter what while totally ignoring how miserable the life of themselves and the other commoners have been made. Even more saddening is the fact that many educated people also do the same as we see in the comments section of various articles and op-ed published in ET. God help us getting rid of these so called leaders. Amen.
An informative article. Chinese were wise enough to recognize the menace of corruption to start with. These tough procedures have not stopped the corruption altogether in Chinese bureaucracy but it keeps the violation within acceptable tolerance levels. On the other side, in Pakistan, it is unfortunately only IK who has the loudest voice against corruption. Rest could care less.
The complete plan to eliminate corruption and hence way to progress is already there to be adopted by any other nation desiring to progress and uproot corruption. However, I'm sure Pakistan wouldn't be one of them. When the sole motive of the whole leadership of the country to come into power is to make as much money as possible, then my conclusion is obvious. The real problem is not that our leadership is corrupt and inapt but the tragedy is that our masses are totally ignorant (and kept ignorant by the leaders for this sake) and keep on parroting "Jiay Bhuto" and "Sher Aaya" no matter what they do with the commoners. And even sadder is the fact that a large number of educated people also do the same as evident in the comments on this forum. God help us getting rid of such leaders. Amen.
The complete plan to eliminate corruption and hence way to progress is already there to be adopted by any other nation desiring to progress and uproot corruption. However, I'm sure Pakistan wouldn't be one of them. When the sole motive of the whole leadership of the country to come into power is to make as much money as possible, then my conclusion is obvious. The real problem is not that our leadership is corrupt and inapt but the tragedy is that our masses are totally ignorant (and ignorant by the leaders for this sake) and keep on parroting "Jiay Bhuto" and "Sher Aaya" no matter what they do with the commoners. And even sadder is the fact that a large number of educated people also do the same as evident in the comments on this forum. God help us getting rid of such leaders. Amen.
Admire the Chinese. Wish India follows the Chinese example of war on corruption.