Corruption surveillance to triple as China's new anti-graft agency tightens screws
Watchdog to get 10 per cent more staff to handle ‘huge job’, minister says
China’s new anti-graft agency will keep an eye on triple the number of targets than the existing watchdogs, the supervision minister said on Monday.
There will also be more staff to handle the extra workload but it will be “a huge job”, Minister of Supervision Yang Xiaodu said on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress.
The agency, the National Supervisory Commission, will be run according to a new supervision law that has been submitted to the largely ceremonial legislature for passage at the annual parliamentary session under way in Beijing.
It will see the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog, the CCDI, merged with government departments tasked with tackling corruption. The new agency will coordinate with judicial and procuratorial bodies and law enforcement departments.
“The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and local commissions will have a 10 per cent increase in manpower [after the merger],” Yang said. “The targets have been increased by 200 per cent so, based on our experience, we know this is going to be a huge job.”
Yang did not say exactly how many staff would be involved.
