Liu Yunshan: reject corruption in official selection

Chinese senior leader Liu Yunshan on Sunday urged personnel authorities to select cadres in a transparent and fair way and firmly reject illicit canvassing and vote-buying.

The organization departments at all levels should select officials with good work styles through a system of sound framework, said Liu, a newly elected member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, at a meeting on official's style building.

Nepotism, bribery at election and other illicit practices in official selection should be firmly resisted, and those who are involved in such corruption will be relentlessly punished, Liu said.

Fourteen officials and experts were present at the meeting. Liu asked them to speak out freely and give their down-to-earth suggestions.

During the selection of officials, the doers, who work more and talk less, should be entrusted with important posts, Jin Yang, deputy head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, said in his speech.

In response to Jin, Liu said those vaunting talkers, who always indulge in empty talk but shrink back doing any solid things, should not get promotion.

Liu called on officials to take the lead to implement the "eight requirements" made by the new top CPC leadership to reject extravagance and bureaucracy.

At a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Dec. 4, senior officials agreed on the requirements including simplified receptions for officials' visits, shortened official meetings and fewer traffic controls arranged for senior leaders.

The implementation of these requirements can not be stayed in just "yelling slogans," urged Liu, "concrete measures of operation must be in place."

The improvement of officials' work styles should not be evaluated by officials themselves, said Liu, adding the people's supervision and evaluation are needed, and their satisfaction is the standard of evaluation.