Central team leads discipline campaign

China's central government has changed its role from an "adviser" to a "leader" in disciplinary inspection, aiming to boost supervision of provincial work and improve enforcement efficiency.

Previously, some provincial inspection teams did not pay attention to problems raised by the central government and could not solve them in a timely fashion, as the role of the central inspection team was only to provide advice for local teams, according to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the nation's top anti-graft watchdog.

To urge local agencies to efficiently enforce central government requirements, President Xi Jinping shifted the role of the central inspection team, asking it to lead provincial inspection work and apply more pressure on the subordinate teams, the website said.