(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-01-17 07:07

Persons in charge of state-owned enterprises must behave themselves, said the communique. They are banned from seeking profits for themselves or their "special concerned persons" through related transactions and other means. They should not favor the business of their spouse, children and other "special concerned persons" and should not provide favors to each other.

They should not seek personal profits amid enterprise asset integration or when strategic investors come; They are banned from insider trades when companies are listed or restructured; they are banned to ask or force accounting staff to provide fake financial reports; and they are banned to set their own salaries by themselves or issue subsidies and bonus randomly, according to the communique.

Chinese President Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a keynote speech at the high-profile meeting, pledging to step up the nation's anti-corruption battle.

"Anti-corruption measures and the upholding of integrity should run thoroughly through the nation's economic, political and cultural makeup and the Party's ideological, organizational, work style and institutional building," he said.

He pointed out that prevention and punishment should be "put on an equal footing" in the anti-corruption combat, and "symptoms and root causes should be addressed at the same time".

Hu's speech was a "guideline document to enhance the work of anti-corruption and upholding of integrity" and was of great significance to the deepening of the graft fight, the communique said.

Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang and Zhou Yongkang, all members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, were present at the CCDI session.

Government officials were brought to the front line by the Communist Party's watchdog in its battle against corruption last year. By June, a total of 24,879 cases had been investigated, with concerned bribes totaling more than 6.156 billion yuan.

Government employees were involved in 5,523 bribe cases, accounting for 22.2 percent of those caught, statistics showed.

He Minxu, former vice-governor of eastern Anhui Province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes of 8.41 million yuan (about 1.12 million U.S. dollars) from 27 organizations and individuals, the latest senior official to be brought down in a corruption scandal.

Another striking case last year was that of Zheng Xiaoyu, former director of China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), who was executed in July, the fourth senior official of his rank to be sentenced to death since 2000. Zheng was found guilty of taking 6.49 million yuan in bribes and dereliction of duty.

His dereliction of duty undermined the efficacy of China's drug monitoring and supervision, endangered public life and health and had a very negative social impact, said the Supreme People's Court when approving the death penalty.

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