As deterrence to corrupt officials, when inspection teams unearth corruption or related problems in a department, those responsible will get deserved punishment without leniency. As a majority of the inspected departments, like provincial governments or SOEs, are rather powerful and could mobilize resources to resist decisions from inspection groups, the central leadership will back inspection groups to make sure discipline violators are punished.
Deep analysis is also of key importance to inspections because only by making clear the origins of problems can we solve them. Inspection teams are responsible for drafting in-depth reports and providing advice on improving disciplinary mechanisms, so as to improve our disciplinary regulations and prevent corruption.
Inspection teams are expected to have a strong sense of responsibility. At various levels, Party chiefs assume the role of inspection leading groups, and report to higher committees. The central leadership requires them to be serious with the job.
The inspection teams are part of a bigger, comprehensive supervision system, and we will ensure there is coordination among all groups to make sure power is shut in the cage. The inspection system will be combined with other systems to make it effective.
To promote the rule of law as advocated by the top leadership, the CPC as the country's ruling party must regulate its various levels of organizations and members with discipline first.
The central leadership has delicately considered and collected enough precious advice before updating the specific regulation this time to make sure it can better serve the needs of inspections and suit the new situations. We expect various levels of the Party's organizations and all its members to render support to the inspection teams, and strictly implement disciplinary inspection.
The author is secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. The article is an excerpt from his signed article in Chinese, which first appeared in People's Daily.