sir! will they also get black marks if their have mistress too?
corruption money usually goes to them...
Avoid seedy places, China officials told
Communist party leader warns of pitfalls of vice in wake of graft and criminal cases
BEIJING: Chinese communist cadres are being told to scorn prostitutes and avoid 'vulgar' places of entertainment in the latest bid to boost decaying morality and rein in corruption.
Mr Li Yuanchao, head of the organisation department that controls major personnel appointments, warned that officials could receive black marks in their behavioural assessments for visiting hostess bars, the state-run China News Service said yesterday.
Officials must avoid such temptations, since they are often a gateway to corruption and abuse of power and harm the image of the party and its cadres, said Mr Li, a member of the party's powerful Politburo.
Mr Li issued the warnings in recent speeches at the opening of autumn classes at the party's official training academies.
The warnings come after a spate of criminal and corruption cases in which party officials have been caught with prostitutes, maintaining mistresses or engaging in illicit sexual affairs, the Global Times reported. Previously, the media had reported that 95 per cent of corrupt officials had mistresses.
'Party cadres must refuse to allow themselves to be contaminated by that which is impure. Integrity and cleanliness cannot be separated,' Mr Li said.
'Of leading cadres who fall into the abyss of corruption, the majority started with an inability to remain pure.'
Cadres should keep a wary eye on businessmen seeking to corrupt them, Mr Li said. Citing a notorious example, he said that Lai Changxing, the kingpin in China's biggest-ever smuggling scandal, had carefully studied the interests and habits of local officials in order to tempt and corrupt them.
Among other accusations, Lai is alleged to have run the famed 'Red Mansion' in which he plied officials with liquor and prostitutes. Lai, who has escaped to Canada, is fighting a long-drawn tussle to avoid being extradited back to China.
The Global Times cited the more recent corruption case of Chen Liangyu, the jailed former top party leader of Shanghai, who was involved with a mistress. The paper also cited the case of karaoke-spa centre worker Deng Yujiao, who fatally stabbed a local official in Hubei province in May after he tried to rape her.
The 75 million-member Chinese Communist Party has struggled to control widespread practices of embezzlement, taking kickbacks, and influence-peddling that have degraded public faith and sometimes led to violent protests.
Leaders meeting last month said they wanted to force top cadres to declare their homes and investments, as well as their family members' jobs and incomes, but reached no consensus on how to do that.
corruption money usually goes to them...
Avoid seedy places, China officials told
Communist party leader warns of pitfalls of vice in wake of graft and criminal cases
BEIJING: Chinese communist cadres are being told to scorn prostitutes and avoid 'vulgar' places of entertainment in the latest bid to boost decaying morality and rein in corruption.
Mr Li Yuanchao, head of the organisation department that controls major personnel appointments, warned that officials could receive black marks in their behavioural assessments for visiting hostess bars, the state-run China News Service said yesterday.
Officials must avoid such temptations, since they are often a gateway to corruption and abuse of power and harm the image of the party and its cadres, said Mr Li, a member of the party's powerful Politburo.
Mr Li issued the warnings in recent speeches at the opening of autumn classes at the party's official training academies.
The warnings come after a spate of criminal and corruption cases in which party officials have been caught with prostitutes, maintaining mistresses or engaging in illicit sexual affairs, the Global Times reported. Previously, the media had reported that 95 per cent of corrupt officials had mistresses.
'Party cadres must refuse to allow themselves to be contaminated by that which is impure. Integrity and cleanliness cannot be separated,' Mr Li said.
'Of leading cadres who fall into the abyss of corruption, the majority started with an inability to remain pure.'
Cadres should keep a wary eye on businessmen seeking to corrupt them, Mr Li said. Citing a notorious example, he said that Lai Changxing, the kingpin in China's biggest-ever smuggling scandal, had carefully studied the interests and habits of local officials in order to tempt and corrupt them.
Among other accusations, Lai is alleged to have run the famed 'Red Mansion' in which he plied officials with liquor and prostitutes. Lai, who has escaped to Canada, is fighting a long-drawn tussle to avoid being extradited back to China.
The Global Times cited the more recent corruption case of Chen Liangyu, the jailed former top party leader of Shanghai, who was involved with a mistress. The paper also cited the case of karaoke-spa centre worker Deng Yujiao, who fatally stabbed a local official in Hubei province in May after he tried to rape her.
The 75 million-member Chinese Communist Party has struggled to control widespread practices of embezzlement, taking kickbacks, and influence-peddling that have degraded public faith and sometimes led to violent protests.
Leaders meeting last month said they wanted to force top cadres to declare their homes and investments, as well as their family members' jobs and incomes, but reached no consensus on how to do that.
