Top CPC graft-buster warns of Party cliques

The chief discipline inspector of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said no inner-Party cliques are allowed, and all members must abide by Party rules.

Party cadres should "maintain a high degree of unity with the CPC Central Committee," said Wang Qishan, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, at its Saturday plenary session.

"Any Party member is forbidden from forming a clique and rent-seeking," Wang said. "Going one's own way, or complying in public but undermining in private are never allowed."

Wang vowed to intensify discipline inspection to fight the phenomenon of "higher authorities with policies, localities with counter-measures".