How to supervise the anti-graft watchdogs

As an important part of the Communist Party of China's campaign for stricter self-governance, the Party's disciplinary officials, or anti-graft watchdogs, undertake the mission of "supervision, discipline enforcement and holding violators accountable", and thus play a decisive role in the Party's fight against corruption and drive toward clean governance.

But supervision of the anti-graft watchdogs has long been a difficult issue.

At the just-concluded annual plenary meeting of the top anti-graft watchdog - the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China - Party chief Xi Jinping said disciplinary commissions at various levels should strengthen self-supervision and voluntarily put themselves under intra-Party supervision and social supervision, as part of the efforts to build a team of disciplinary officials that can win the confidence of the Party and the people. Xi's remarks should resolve the anti-graft watchdog supervision issue.