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standing committee of the municipal party committee and vice-mayors, a policy of avoidance will be adopted.
(3) Cars will be allocated strictly in accordance with regulations, and the import of saloon cars strictly forbidden. Li Ximing, secretary of the municipal party committee, and Chen Xitong, mayor, will exchange their imported cars for Chinese- made cars. Some leading comrades who are using imported cars shall gradually replace them with Chinese-made cars.
(4) Giving dinner parties and gifts will be strictly forbidden. Members of the standing committee and vice- mayors will be forbidden to use public funds to entertain domestic guests. They shall invariably eat work meals [Chinese: gong zuo can] during visits to lower-level or grassroots units. The municipal finance bureau shall set the standards of the work meals and supervise their enforcement. No one will be allowed to accept samples, gifts or other articles, regardless of the names and excuses used. Those in contravention of this will be investigated to determine their responsibility.
(5) Overseas visits by leading cadres will be strictly controlled. Overseas visits made by leading cadres at and above the deputy bureau chief level must be in connection with work and must be approved by the mayor or their superior vice-mayor. Using quotas and funds of the superior units or inventing all sorts of names to go on overseas tours will be strictly forbidden. Accepting the invitation of foreign business firms or Chinese companies abroad to make overseas tours will not be allowed.
(6) Investigation and handling of economic crimes will be stepped up, particularly major and important cases. Those involved in corruption, bribery, speculation, profiteering and other criminal cases must be thoroughly investigated and duly punished by law, no matter who they are. In the course of handling the cases, whoever pleads for mercy for those guilty, or who bends the law to shield them will be exposed and dealt with sternly. In order to crack down on serious economic activities more effectively, activities will be launched in accordance with the arrangments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council to encourage people to confess their crimes and surrender themselves voluntarily to the authorities.
HENAN PARTY ACTS AGAINST CORRUPT
CADRES
Peking 'Renmin Ribao' in Chinese 25 Jul 89
Abstract of report
Recently the Henan party discipline inspection commission took action against four leading cadres at the city and county level who had "seriously violated discipline". Ding Runming, a party standing committee member and vice-mayor of Anyang city, extorted 8,000 yuan from Pingyuan pharmaceutical factory to pay his son's school fees. Ding was dismissed from his posts in the party. Song Wenxue, a member of Luoyang party committee, secretary of the city's judicial committee and director of the city public security bureau "bore major responsibility" for the city public security bureau reselling
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three vehicles and making a profit of 195,000 yuan. He has been dismissed from his posts. Zhang Taiyi, party group secretary of the Luoyang middle-level people's court and president of the court, used 1.91m yuan from funds for building a new court house to buy 12 smuggled cars from Shenzhen between June and October 1988. Luoyang city party committee decided to give Zhang a "serious disciplinary warning inside the party". Teng Hongze, an alternate member of Kaifeng city party committee, secretary of the party group in the city's Chinese People's Bank, president of the bank branch, exploited opportunities in his work to have "illegal sexual relations with several women” between July and October 1988. Teng has been dismissed from his party posts and faces dismissal from his post in the bank.
Between January and May 1989, the discipline inspection authorities in Henan dealt with 2,150 disciplinary cases and acted against 1,183 party members, including 13 cadres at and above the county and bureau level.
OTHER REPORTS ON ECONOMIC CRIME AND
CORRUPTION
Official corruption: nation-wide data (Excerpts) Over 15,000 cases were reported to the crime-reporting centre under the Ministry of Supervision in the first half of this year, according to the ministry today [1st August]. Of these, more than 300 involve corruption of government officials above the bureau level. So far, 7,500 cases have been or are being handled... These cases involve some provincial and government ministerial officials who have been proved guilty of embezzlement, accepting bribes, speculation, extravagance, waste, building private housing with public funds and other illegal activities...
In the first five months of this year 238 serious cases have been handled in south China's Guangdong Province. Among those punished were many "high-ranking officials". In Shenzhen, one of the special economic zones in China, 45 cases have been handled since the beginning of this year... (Xinhua in English 1113 gmt 1 Aug 89)
Top-level bankers disciplined for home improvements The Ministry of Supervision, in co- operation with the supervision bureau under the banking department, investigated and punished three vice-presidential- level cadres of the Industrial and Commericial Bank of China for contravening state regulations by using some 40,000 yuan in public funds for home improvements.
"This is a serious error, especially since it was committed after the CCP Central Committee issued a circular on the necessity of performing official duties with honesty. The Ministry of Supervision issued a "demerit" against Huang Yujun, vice-president of the bank "chiefly responsible for the home improvements", and issued a "warning" against Wang Zhanxiang, vice-president of the bank, directly responsible for the home improvements. "Other persons involved in this case must be handled by the bank authorities”. Huang Yujun and the two other vice-presidential-level cadres [Liu Yanhuan and
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