Special law to boost anti-graft fight

The reform of the national supervision system is part of China's overall political reform aimed at establishing a unified national anti-corruption body under the leadership of the Party, in order to strengthen inner-Party as well as national supervision.

The supervision reform, however, faces many challenges such as organization restructuring and interest coordination. Some people used to attribute corruption to the problems in the national political system while ignoring the facts that give rise to corruption. Others wrongly supposed the anti-corruption campaign is a one-time, and unsustainable, measure while ignoring the political meaning of combating corruption. These misunderstandings, to some extent, interfered with the national supervision system reform.

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China says the pilot supervision reform - launched in Beijing municipality, and Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces in December 2016 - will be extended nationwide, in order to deepen the national supervision system reform. So supervisory commissions at the national, provincial and county levels will be set up to work together with discipline inspection authorities. That the supervisory commissions will cover all public sector employees reflects the improvement in the top-level design of the national supervision system reform.