Chinese officials who lie on resumes and personal records targeted in new audit
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 26 February, 2015, 5:01pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 26 February, 2015, 5:01pm
Mimi Lau [email protected]
Chinese officials who lie on resumes and personal records targeted in new audit
Civil servants who lie on their personal records and resumes are being targeted by a new audit ordered by the central government.
Organisation Departments at the local and central level are carrying out the audit to crack down on a “shocking” number of fake resumes and personal files, reported Modern Express, a paper based in Zhejiang province that is affiliated with the official Xinhua news agency.
It was an “open secret” that many cadres faked their personal records by faking qualifications, deleting records of poor conduct and lying about their age, said the report. Some cadres even faked membership of the Communist Party, it said.
The report gave the example of Wang Hongying, the secretary general of the quality and inspection association of Taiyuan city in Shanxi province, who was found to have changed her declared birth date on three occasions.
And the personal files of Wang Yali, an official in Hebei province’s Shijiazhuang city, contained “nothing real” except his gender, the report claimed. Of the 90 official stamps in his files, about half were said to be fake.
The audit follows probes by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection last year that found a culture of faking personal files in at least 15 out of 20 provinces inspected.
Xinhua said that 11 officials in Hebei province had been penalised for faking their credentials.
It said the provincial party committee had refused to recognise the academic qualifications, party membership and birth dates of 11 cadres, who were consequently stripped of their positions and issued marks for poor conduct.
In Qinghai, the provincial party committee has penalised four cadres for similar faults.
