Wall pass n°98 – corruption, unemployment, data leak

The fight against corruption is a constant in the practice of President Xi's power, since coming to power in 2012. Friday 17 June, the Chinese president chaired a study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC dedicated to issues of the fight against corruption. The objective, better coordinate efforts so that officials “don’t dare, cannot and do not want to be involved in corruption cases”. So, what's new in this release ? First of all, the press release seems to announce an intensification of controls. Secondly, the meeting emphasizes the coordination between the different institutions and bodies of the Party. It is also expressly written that the fight against corruption must be accompanied by political rectification. – that is to say a respect to the letter of the ideological doxa of the Party. The text also underlines the high degree of irreproachability required of executives, and this in proportion to their status : the greater the responsibilities, the stricter the conduct must be.

Finally, third point and not least, and document published the same day attacks the concerning the jobs occupied by the families of the Party cadres. It is indeed known that senior Party officials rely on the commercial and entrepreneurial activities of their relatives to enrich themselves., by favoring the companies of the latter during public contracts, for example. Thereby, the new regulations (the full text is not public) sets limits on the industries in which the relatives of executives can operate, and also forces them to report these activities to the internal organs of the Party. As soon as published, this text has sparked many rumors. Some sites hosted abroad speculate on the consequences of these texts on the family of Jiang Zemin, whose daughters work in finance, also hard hit by government regulations.