Revolutionary's daughter backs Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-graft drive
Chen Yun's offspring voices support for campaign in move analysts say is designed to show united front by second-generation Reds
The elder daughter of Deng Xiaoping's arch-rival Chen Yun has voiced her support for President Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown, amid talk of the campaign meeting strong opposition from some late revolutionaries' children.
"We strongly support the anti-corruption campaign. The Communist Party should not loosen discipline, and power should be supervised," Chen Weili told China Youth News Net ahead of her late father's 120th birthday this Saturday.
China Youth Daily ran a commemorative article on the late party elder's views on fighting graft and building up the party last week. Chen Yun, seen as the pioneer of the party's watchdog, was the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection's first secretary from 1978 to 1987.
Both news portal and daily come under the Communist Youth League.
"Xi is [implementing the anti-graft drive] to secure the party rule. The party rule will end otherwise," Chen Weili said.
She recalled how her father taught her to lead a clean, simple life. Revolutionaries' children, or "second-generation Reds", should not be entitled to political privileges, she said.
In one of Chen Yun's speeches, he urged CCDI officials to equip themselves with "a spirit of the five no-fears" - they should not fear being beheaded, jailed, forced to divorce their spouse, or the loss of their party membership or positions.