National Supervisory Commission gets official start in anti-graft fight

China's National Supervisory Commission was inaugurated in a ceremony in Beijing on Friday. The new entity was created to prevent corruption by better overseeing staff members of public offices, including government organs and members of the Communist Party of China.

As part of China's supervisory system reform, the commission will integrate the functions of current supervision authorities and corruption prevention agencies. It also will integrate the departments at procuratorates for handling bribery and dereliction of duty cases or preventing duty-related crimes.

The newly appointed deputy directors and members of the commission took an oath of allegiance to China's Constitution at the ceremony, which was hosted by Yang Xiaodu, director of the commission.