China to set up national supervision commission in 2018

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China will set up its first national supervision commission next year, according to a report from the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

The CCDI said on Sunday that a draft law on national supervision would be submitted to the first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) for approval in March 2018.

The NPC, China's top legislative institution, is expected to approve the commission and its key members, the report said.

It added that the new supervision commission will share responsibility and organization with the CCDI.

Zhao Leji, secretary of the CCDI, presides over the first meeting of the Standing Committee of the 19th CCDI in Beijing, October 29, 2017. /Xinhua Photo

Disciplinary authorities have investigated 440 officials and officers at or above provincial or corps level for corruption over the past five years, who included 43 members and alternate members of the CPC Central Committee, as well as nine members of the CCDI.

Sunday's report also reviewed the anti-corruption work over the past five years, mainly targeting senior-level officials.

In the first nine months of this year alone, 56 officials at or above provincial level were investigated and punished.

Early this year, Beijing, Shanxi and Zhejiang launched pilot supervisory programs.

By the end of this year or early 2018, supervisory commissions will be set up at provincial, city and county levels across the country, to ensure that "all public servants exercising public power" are subject to supervision, the report said.