Chinese President Xi Jinping calls to regulate exercise of power to fight corruption
Xi urges party members and cadres to remember that ‘all power is granted by the people’
China must allow for more public and media oversight of the government and the Communist Party to ensure accountability and to uncover abuses of power, according to President Xi Jinping.
“To fight corruption, [we must] regulate the exercise of power,” Xi said on the eve of the 104th anniversary of the party’s founding.
“[We must] improve the institutional mechanism to unify the authorisation, exercise and control of power, and make it clear, transparent and traceable. [We should] focus on finding loopholes in the exercise of power and address the system’s shortcomings,” he added, urging party members and cadres to always bear in mind that “all power is granted by the people”, and to respect the people, the party, the law and discipline.
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The rules were introduced in 2012 soon after Xi came to power and have been at the centre of an education campaign this year to curb excesses by party members, an issue Beijing believes is key to its public image and legitimacy to rule.