Sessions to strengthen supervision of SOEs

The more corrupt elements uncovered, the more people expect of the contributions that the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the National People's Congress can make to the anti-graft fight. The annual session of the former, the top political advisory body, opened on Tuesday and the latter, the top legislature, is due to begin on Thursday.

With the national consensus that the anti-graft fight is key to the country's future and the governing Party's legitimacy, both NPC deputies and CPPCC National Committee members will undoubtedly voice their concerns over the issue.

On Monday, Dong Dasheng, former deputy auditor-in-chief and also a CPPCC National Committee member, said during a forum that the overseas assets of State-owned enterprises under the direct supervision of the central government totaled more than 4 trillion yuan ($637 billion), and pointed out such a large amount of assets has never been audited.