The session was attended by 112 commission members. Officials in charge of discipline inspection from provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities and major state-owned enterprise and the People's Liberation Army also attended.

Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, spoke at the session and Wei Jianxing, secretary of the commission, made a report calling for greater efforts to combat corruption, according to a communique released by the meeting.

The session was also attended by Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Li Ruihuan, Hu Jintao and Li Lanqing, and other Party and government leaders.

The participants reviewed China's efforts to clean up government and fight corruption during the past year and drew up the goals for 2001. The session noted that Jiang Zemin in his speech summarized the important experience obtained from the Party's anti-corruption struggle and is of great importance to guiding the Party to make improvements in Party discipline and combat corruption in the new century.

Despite the success of the anti-corruption drive, the session pointed out that arduous tasks remain in the fight against corruption.

The meeting asked all Party members to oppose corruption, punish corrupt officials, and continue the anti-corruption struggle to create a favorable social and political environment for the 21st century.

The session set three major tasks for 2001.

-- Enhance leading officials' awareness of self-discipline. A system asking officials at the ministerial and provincial level to report their family property will be adopted and officials are forbidden to accept cash and securities from their subordinates and foreign investors and individual business owners.

-- Continue to deal with major cases and punish corrupt officials. While continuing to crack down on embezzlement, bribery and smuggling, governments at various levels should pay great attention to punishing violations of political disciplines, severe dereliction of duty, and dealing with cases of officials' family members obtaining profits by using the officials' influence, and cases of judiciary officials taking bribes.

-- Continue to deal with malpractice in various departments and industries, such as unsound practices in the field of medicine and the collection of arbitrary fees and unjustified financial levies in the countryside.

To curb the corruption at the source, the reform of administrative system and mechanism should deepen.

The rights of approval of various levels of governments should be put into order, said the communique.

The reform of the fiscal system should be promoted and the supervision and management of funds should be improved.

The personnel system should also be reformed and democracy at the grassroots level should be further promoted.

-- Enhance leading officials' awareness of self-discipline. A system asking officials at the ministerial and provincial level to report their family property will be adopted and officials are forbidden to accept cash and securities from their subordinates and foreign investors and individual business owners.

-- Continue to deal with major cases and punish corrupt officials. While continuing to crack down on embezzlement, bribery and smuggling, governments at various levels should pay great attention to punishing violations of political disciplines, severe dereliction of duty, and dealing with cases of officials' family members obtaining profits by using the officials' influence, and cases of judiciary officials taking bribes.

-- Continue to deal with malpractice in various departments and industries, such as unsound practices in the field of medicine and the collection of arbitrary fees and unjustified financial levies in the countryside.

To curb the corruption at the source, the reform of administrative system and mechanism should deepen.

The rights of approval of various levels of governments should be put into order, said the communique.

The reform of the fiscal system should be promoted and the supervision and management of funds should be improved.

The personnel system should also be reformed and democracy at the grassroots level should be further promoted.

(Xinhua 12/28/2000)