Guangdong unveils locations for pilot anti-graft scheme
Province selects three locations for experimental scheme requiring officials to declare their assets
Guangdong has chosen three locations for the testing of a pilot anti-graft scheme which requires senior officials to declare personal and family assets, mainland media reported yesterday.
The Hengqin New Area of Zhuhai, Nansha New Area of Guangzhou, and Shixing county, Shaoguan, have been chosen for the province's experimental anti-graft programme. The plan will also feature a new mechanism through which the results of audits of assets belonging to outgoing top officials would be released to "a certain range of officials", starting next year, the reported yesterday.
Citing people close to the Guangdong disciplinary watchdog, the paper said that the pilot programme in those three locations would lay the groundwork for a broader asset-declaration programme.
In the Hengqin New Area, authorities have established an anti-corruption office - featuring a disciplinary supervisory department, auditing supervisory department, and anti-bribery and anti-malpractice department. Local officials said the goal of this body was to learn from Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption and to push for the declaration of party cadres' assets, the newspaper reported.
In Shixing county, mid-level officials have for the past six months been required to publish details of their assets.
The asset-declaration scheme is one of 35 measures in the provincial government's blueprint to curb corruption over the next five years.
