CHINA-CORRUPTION: POLITBURO MEMBER GUO SHENGKUN ANNOUNCES ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW CENTRAL SMALL LEADING GROUP TO FIGHT CORRUPTION
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After Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted a ceremony to celebrate the end of a three-year campaign to take on organized crime, Politburo member and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission Guo Shengkun, announced in Beijing on March 29 that he would head a central small leading group to spearhead the battle against organised crime. He said the weeding out of organized crime will focus specifically on ten sectors, including: Financial lending; Transport and logistics; Construction; Natural resources; Environmental protection; Tourism; and Healthcare. He warned that any involvement of officials in such crimes will be scrutinised extra carefully. Guo Shengkun also encouraged members of the public to give tips, via a recently established online portal and promised that officials will be held accountable for life if they don’t take those tips seriously. The report was publicised by Xinhua, the People's Daily and The Paper on March 30.
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