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China revamps discipline inspection rules to ensure Xi Jinping’s instructions are carried out

  • Under revised regulations, the ‘fundamental task’ for anti-corruption investigators is to safeguard Xi’s ‘core status’, authority and leadership
  • The Communist Party wants to make sure cases in which local governments ignore the Chinese leader’s directives ‘do not happen again’, analyst says

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Discipline inspection has been a powerful anti-corruption tool for the Communist Party under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s leadership since 2012. Photo: Xinhua
William Zheng
China’s ruling Communist Party has revamped a set of rules to bolster its discipline inspections, making it a top priority to check whether cadres have fully implemented instructions from President Xi Jinping.
The party’s Central Committee has released revised regulations on inspection work and issued a directive asking all regions and government agencies to strictly comply, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
According to Xinhua, the revisions were approved at a January 31 meeting of the party’s 24-member Politburo and circulated within the party on February 8.

The revised regulations include a new clause that defines inspection work as the “political supervision” of party organs from the top down, according to the full text released by Xinhua.

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A newly added paragraph at the beginning of the document states that the inspection work’s “fundamental task is to resolutely safeguard the core status” of Xi, as well as his authority and leadership.

Another new section explains that the party’s inspection team shall, as its top priority, check on the implementation of “major decisions and arrangements of the party’s Central Committee, especially the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches and important instructions”.

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The revisions also removed three articles detailing specific corruption and disciplinary issues to watch for, which had been a top priority in the previous version, and summarised them in a single paragraph that appears after the section about implementing Xi’s instructions.

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