The Jiangsu Provincial Supervisory Commission was inaugurated Thursday morning in Nanjing, marking the completion of the establishment of the supervisory commissions at the provincial, municipal and county levels in accordance with the unified arrangements of the Central Government.
Lou Qinjian, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, unveiled the nameplate for the supervisory commission. Jiang Zhuoqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and head of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection Commission, presided over the unveiling ceremony.
Deepening the reform of the state supervision system is a major policy decision made by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core. It is a major reform of the political system that is related to the overall situation and a major move to modernize the country's governance system and its governance capacity.
In November last year, the province held a video-teleconference on the pilot project of reforming the province's supervisory system to make arrangement for the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important directives on the reform of the state supervisory system and the work to be done in the pilot project on the reform of the supervisory system with high standards and high quality.
On January 31, the director of the provincial supervisory commission was elected at the first session of the 13th Provincial People's Congress and the deputy directors and members of the provincial supervisory commission were appointed. Accordingly, the Provincial Supervisory Commission was officially established according to legal procedures, indicating that Jiangsu had taken a crucial step in the deepening of the pilot work on the supervisory system reform.
China will establish a national supervisory commission by March 2018 as part of the country's anti-corruption campaign, with jurisdiction over Party organs.
The new supervisory commissions will incorporate existing supervisory, corruption prevention and control agencies within the governments and procuratorates.
Supervisory commissions will be set up across the country by the People's Congresses at provincial, city and county-levels within their jurisdiction to supervise those exercising public power, according to the decision.
The commissions would be in charge of three major duties: supervision, investigation and punishment.
