For Lyu Xiaodong, a grassroots disciplinary official in east China's Zhejiang Province, recent moves by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will help improve the efficiency of discipline inspection work in the future.
China has launched a pilot program in Beijing, and Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces, to make the current supervision system more authoritative and efficient, said a statement Monday.
The statement, released by the general office of the CPC Central Committee, said supervision committees will be established as part of the three pilots.
Zhuang Deshui, vice director of the clean government research center at Peking University, said the three pilots were chosen with consideration as a foundation for anti-corruption.
China's former reforms were rarely piloted in Beijing, and this move reflects China's determination to press ahead with reform, Zhuang said.
Zhejiang has established a work group, led by Xia Baolong, secretary of the provincial committee of the CPC, for deepened reform of the province's supervision system.
Though the concrete reform plan has yet to be rolled out, Lyu, head of the Party discipline inspection committee in Qingyuan County, Lishui City, said the new supervision committee will target more people.
The commission for discipline inspection system only inspects CPC members. The new supervision committee will eliminate blind spots, mobilize more anti-corruption resources, integrate procuratorates, and audit commissions and corruption prevention bureaus, to reinforce anti-corruption efforts, Lyu said.
Li Yongzhong, former deputy head of the Chinese Discipline Inspection Institute, echoed Lyu's views. Li highlighted the extent of the reform's coverage.
The current supervision system only covers the country's administration organs, however, the people's congress, the political consultative body, courts and procuratorates are excluded from the targets of supervision departments, Li said.
The new plan will make everyone on the government payroll subject to the supervision committee, even including those from public hospitals and schools, he said.
"According to the current Administrative Supervision Law, China's local supervision authorities are not independent," he explained. "They are under the administration of governments. Sometimes, the personnel and financial affairs of the supervision departments were controlled by the local governments."
He said the reform of the current supervision system, one of the most important political reforms, indicated China's determination to deepen reform and combat corruption.
Li said China's anti-corruption campaign has been upgraded since the 18th CPC National Congress in late 2012, and it has won applause from home and abroad.
North China's Shanxi has also set up a reform work group, and the scheme is being formulated.
Shanxi has shocked the country with a spate of corruption cases. In 2014, seven provincial-level officials were put under investigation, along with 45 city-level and 545 county-level officials.
"Choosing Shanxi for the pilot showed the central government's recognition to Shanxi's anti-corruption efforts," said Li Guoxiang, a research fellow with the Shanxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences.
"The supervision system reform in Shanxi will also provide experience," he said, adding that he also believed the building of a national anti-graft organ under the leadership of the Party would also be implemented in the spirit of the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee.
