Uphill battle must not be lost

IF PREVENTING POWER FROM BEING ABUSED is of importance to governing according to the law, what the central inspection teams do is speeding up the realization of this goal by finding out how power is abused and how serious the problem is.

The second round of such inspections, which concluded recently, has found that abuse of power is still rampant in the 10 regions inspected, plus the General Administration of Sport, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China FAW Group Corporation.

The inspections found that abuse of power by top leaders at all levels is one of the most prominent problems. There is not only a large number of cases involving leading officials at various levels, which are detrimental to the reputation of the Party and government and to the carriage of justice and fairness. But the number of top leaders caught taking bribes and embezzling public money is on the rise.