Student aims to get officials' pay made public
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The staff member told him that the head of the administration is the deputy minister of health, and the Ministry of Health has the authority to disclose information, Lei said.
"I told them to give me a written reply. He said they needed to go into the question, and didn't refuse me outright. So I'll wait for their reply," he said.
"To publicly disclose officials' income can bring no practical results in fighting corruption. There is indeed a strict salary standard for officials in those central ministerial-level departments," said Gou Yannan, associate professor at Fudan University's School of International Relations and Public Affairs.
"More attention should be given to the detailed administrative expenditures, which is often a gray zone," he said.
In 1995, China issued a regulation requiring government officials above county-level to declare their personal assets. Since then, the country has issued rules, giving more detailed and specific requirements on officials' personal assets declaration. But the assets information was not open to the public.
"Officials' assets declaration has been a common part of anti-corruption measures in many countries and areas. And it has proved very effective in fighting graft. Our country should also accelerate setting up such a system," said Zhu Lijia, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Governance.
In 2009, authorities in Altay prefecture, in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, took the lead, publishing a list of the assets of more than 1,000 current and retired officials. The move was applauded by the public. So far, there are some cities in the country that have already established the pilot system for government officials' assets declaration, such as Cixi, Zhejiang province, and Liuyang, Hunan province.
Zhu said that effective supervision system should also be established.
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