New CPC leadership's first 100 ruling days inspiring(5)

Responding to central authorities' call, this year's Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year which fell on Feb. 10, became one of the most frugal such events ever, with not as many lavish feasts.

Xie Chuntao, professor at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, noted the new leadership had introduced impressing new remarks, policies and strategic deployment in its first 100 days.

"The core of these new moves is they've been emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts. With the things they've done and their easy-going, practical and self-disciplinary style, the new leaders have set themselves as role models in pushing forward reform, shunning empty talk and being doers," according to Xie.

To follow suit, local government departments and various industries also introduced measures to curb chronic problems, which won acclaim from the public and media.

Receiving and seeing off visitors used to be a big headache for Gao Peng, deputy project director of the China Three Gorges Corporation.

"The central authority's eight bureaucracy-busting measures have alleviated my burden," he said. "I really hope the new style can last."

Moreover, amid intensified anti-corruption efforts, two ministry-level officials -- Li Chuncheng, deputy secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the CPC, and Yi Junqing, director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of the CPC Central Committee -- have been removed from their posts since the new leadership took office.

Spurred on by new leaders' resolve to fight corruption, China's microblog users have used the Internet to out corrupt local cadres.

The recent fall of some officials in the country was caused by online muck-rakers who used China's popular social networking websites to reveal their victims' scandalous behavior, such as starring roles in sex videos.