Supervisory bodies to boost rule of law

The fact that Yang Xiaodu, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and minister of supervision, said on Monday that the planned national supervisory commission (NSC) will not be a powerful watchdog without restraints confirms the new supervisory body will be under the leadership of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and responsible to and supervised by the National People's Congress now that it has been proposed to be written into the Constitution.

In fact, legislation of the national supervision law and the due election of the chief of the NSC at the ongoing first session of the 13th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, will weave a broad supervisory network covering all public power holders and add weight to the anti-corruption campaign. The process which is already underway will lead China into a new era where the anti-graft drive will be fully based on law.

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in late 2012, the efforts to promote stricter self-governance, use the intra-Party political ecology to the optimum level and improve the self-purification capability have become a focus of the Party's work. Tighter measures and improved cohesion have helped the Party to make unprecedented achievements in the fight against corruption.