The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Tuesday announced it is requiring all
leading cadres to provide details of their personal affairs, including listing
their investments, changes in their marital status and whether their children
marry foreigners.
A circular providing details of reporting requirements was issued after a
meeting on Tuesday of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee which
was presided over by president Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the Chinese
Communist Party Central Committee.
The circular says the goal of the reporting requirement is to strengthen the
Party's internal supervision and ensure clean and honest governance.
The circular said that enhancing the Party's internal supervision and
preventing corruption are necessary requirements for improving the Party's
capacity to govern and to maintain the Party's leading role.
The circular said the requirement to have leading cadres report their
personal affairs, which was officially promulgated in January 1997 by the
General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State
Council, is an important Party regulation that reflects the CPC's resolve to
supervise its leading cadres.
The circular requires leading cadres to report to the Party within a month
when the following changes occur in their personal affairs: if they or their
spouses, or their children who live with them, build, buy, sell or rent
property; if they participate in organizing a marriage ceremony or funeral rite
for themselves or a close relatives; if they or their children marry foreigners;
if their spouses or children immigrant to other countries; if they travel abroad
for private reasons; if their spouses or children are investigated by judicial
organs or are suspected of committing crimes and if their spouses and children
run individual, private businesses or contract and rent state-owned enterprises
and collective enterprises, or act as high-ranking managers in joint ventures
and mainland branches of overseas companies.
The circular said the meeting considered that with the development of the
country's reforms and modernization, the reporting regulations needed to be
revised and the reporting procedures improved.
The meeting required all the Party cadres to adhere to the notion of
"exerting power for the people, sharing the feeling of the people and working
for the people's interests" and consciously implement the regulations.
Cadre's performance in implementing the regulations will be taken as an
important factor in his or her overall tenure assessment, according to the
meeting.
The regulations apply to cadres in Party's organs, people's congresses,
governments, political advisory organs and judicial organs at county level or
above, as well as cadres whose ranks are equivalent to county head in
state-owned enterprises and companies.
Earlier this month, the CPC issues another important rule, namely regulations
on the system of withdrawal of officials and their family relatives, saying that
the spouse, children and relatives of a person appointed to the leading official
post in a government or Party unit cannot be subordinate officials, accountants,
auditors or human resources cadres in that unit during the official's tenure.
According to the new regulations, officials must not work in a government
office that controls or supervises any industry or enterprise in which their
family members hold shares.
