Unified leadership can better fight corruption

The reform of the national supervisory system, a major step toward promoting institutional restructuring that will have far-reaching social and political implications, is China's important top-level design for a new national supervisory system and important move to modernize its governance system and capacity.

At a collective study session of the members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on Dec 13, CPC Central Committee General Secretary Xi Jinping highlighted the objectives and tasks of deepening the discipline inspection and supervision system reform, and re-emphasized that standardizing and correctly exercising supervisory power could propel the reform and promote the standardization of legislation of anti-corruption work.

The CPC has always attached great importance to fighting corruption, because it sees it as a major political task related to the future of the Party and the country. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in November 2012, the Party Central Committee with Xi as the core has adopted a zero-tolerance approach to corruption and launched a campaign to trap the "tigers" (high-ranking corrupt officials), slap the "flies" (lower-level corrupt officials) and pursue the "foxes" (corrupt officials on the run). The campaign has achieved great success in combating corruption, promoting clean governance, and wining public support and high endorsement from the international community.