Beijing has further tightened its management of rural government workers with revised anti-corruption supervision rules for grass-roots officials.
The changes mean that after more than a decade of anti-corruption campaigns, China’s system for supervising rural officials has finally been defined, according to one scholar.
The revised Regulations on the Honest Performance of Duties by Rural Grass-roots Officials came into force on March 28, state news agency Xinhua reported last week.
The document was jointly issued by the Central Office of the Communist Party and the General Office of the State Council, China’s cabinet, and is the first revision of the rules since they were made known in 2011.
The new regulations significantly expand the number of grass-roots officials subject to disciplinary supervision to include township cadres, village officials and officials sent to rural areas as part of President Xi Jinping’s massive poverty alleviation campaign.
