Guangdong was building a database on employment information of government leaders' families to avoid nepotism and tackle corruption, the Southern Metropolitan News reported.

All leaders above county level should fill in a form detailing the employment information of family members, according to a notice from the Guangdong Provincial Disciplinary Inspection Commission of the CPC, the provincial anti-graft watchdog.

The leaders should hand in the forms to the disciplinary inspection commission before May 15.

The leaders or their families should tell the disciplinary inspection commission if they or their family members had been promoted or got new jobs or contracts within a month of the change, according to the notice.

Leaders' family members should not be involved in businesses that might conflict with leaders' public interests, according to an earlier notice issued by the Central Disciplinary Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China.

Disciplinary inspection commissions at various levels should check the information and order those who violate disciplines to change jobs.

Those who refused to change would face punishment, the notice said.

(Shenzhen Daily April 22, 2005)