Monitor your own families for corruption, China’s President Xi Jinping tells Communist Party leaders
China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on top Communist Party leaders to strictly manage the people close to them to prevent corruption – and to learn from the fall of their former colleagues Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai and others.
At the latest “democratic life meeting” of the 25-member politburo, top cadres said preventing the re-emergence of corrupt practices and upholding the party’s working style were still top priorities despite the successes of Xi’s crackdown on graft.
Xi asked fellow leaders to act as role models and to monitor and correct the behaviour of wayward members of their families or people working for them.
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He said without self-discipline, cadres were at risk of losing their ethics as they rose through the ranks.
He cited the cases of corrupt former high-level leaders including the former politburo members Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai, as well as Xu Caihou, Guo Boxiong and Ling Jihua.
“Comrades of the politburo must not feel any superiority in terms of power and positon,” Xi said.
The top leadership agreed to continue to educate party cadres above county level to reinforce the achievements of the anti-corruption drive and stressed that the campaign must continue.