Special Report: 17th CPC National Congress
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Zhou Guoxiong, a delegate from Shanghai, E China attends the ongoing 17th CPC CPC National Congress on Oct. 18, 2007. (Xinhua Photo)
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BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Party of
China (CPC) is determined to curb corruption by establishing a preventive
mechanism and strengthening law enforcement, delegates attending the Party's
national congress said.
Hu Jintao said Monday morning in the political report
to the 17th CPC National Congress, "Resolutely punishing and effectively
preventing corruption bears on the popular support for the Party and on its very
survival, and is therefore a major political task the Party must attend to at
all times."
Hu's report was acclaimed by delegates to the ongoing
Party congress.
Zhang Xiaoping, a delegate from Sichuan Province,
said, "Generally speaking, our Party's organism is healthy and the mainstream of
Party members are well qualified."
"The iron fists of our Party against corruption just
show the resolution and determination of the Party to crack down on bad things,"
Zhang said.
A senior official of the Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection revealed that in the single year of 2005, a total of
11,071 people were expelled from the Party because of embezzlement or taking
bribes, 7,279 out of whom were transferred to judicial organs for further
investigations.
By June 2007, a total of 24,879 commercial bribe
cases had been investigated, with concerned amount of bribes reaching more than
6.156 billion yuan (820.8 million U.S. dollars). Government employees were
involved in 5,523 bribe cases, taking up 22.2 percent.
"While resolutely cracking down on corruption," Hu
told the congress, "we will work harder to remove its root cause and take
preventive measures through improving relevant institutions and expanding our
efforts to curb corruption at the source."
"The root cause of corruption is the imperfect
institution, ineffective supervision and loose ethics education," delegate Han
Peixin said.
