CHINA-CCP: CCP CC AND STATE COUNCIL ISSUE DOCUMENT URGING STRUGGLE AGAINST TRIADS AND "EVIL" FORCES

The People's Daily (May 21) reported that the CCP CC and State Council had jointly issued a document on the struggle against the triads and “evil” forces. The document calls for the Party to: “accurately grasp the new trends of crimes involving black and evil, and constantly strengthen the supervision and special rectification of industry, combine this with anti-corruption campaign by swatting flies and strengthen the construction of grass-roots organizations, constantly improve the social governance system led by party committees…” and said there was to “focus on tackling both the symptoms and root causes of outstanding problems and chaos in financial lending, engineering construction, transportation, market circulation, natural resources, ecological environment, cultural tourism, education and health, information network and social security, constantly consolidate grassroots organizations, and continuously prevent and rectify problems such as interference and erosion by evil forces such as ‘village tyrants’ and serious influence of family and clan forces.” The article mentioned the need for ensuring adequate reporting of the challenges at the grassroots levels and to rework the system of incentives to ensure that local officials do not use only sticks while prioritising their effort of tackling triads, criminal gangs and interest groups. The article urged cadres to “incorporate the fight against evil into the evaluation system for the construction of (Ping An) Safe China, as an important basis for the selection and recognition of the construction of Safe China; report and praise the regions, units and individuals with outstanding achievements, report and supervise the backward places that dare not fight, do not really fight and do not fight deeply; listen to the evaluation of the masses, strive to serve the people, and promote the establishment and improvement of the accountability and investigation mechanism for crimes committed by evil forces.” The document clarified that "there is also a clear division of responsibility. So leading Party and government members should personally be engaged in supporting the fight and breaking “protective umbrella” networks. The “main responsible comrades of the political and legal organs at all levels are directly responsible for the fight against criminals and evil. The higher-level political and legal organs should strengthen supervision and inspection…” Also, “the main responsible comrades of the regulatory departments in various industries and fields are the first responsible persons for the governance of specific industries.”





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