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Chinese Communist Party in ideology crackdown: paper
by Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) July 21, 2014


China police chief investigated by graft body
Beijing (AFP) July 21, 2014 - The police chief of China's Tianjin city is being investigated for corruption, authorities said, the third senior security official in the northern port to be targeted for graft in eight years.

Wu Changshun, director of the city's public security bureau, is being investigated for "serious disciplinary and legal violations", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said.

The terms used by the CCDI on Sunday are commonly used to refer to corruption.

Wu is the latest official to fall in a wide-ranging graft crackdown launched by President Xi Jinping when he took office last year.

The high-profile campaign has been criticised in some quarters for a lack of transparency and for not introducing systemic reforms.

Previously, Wu's predecessor Song Pingshun committed suicide in June 2007 after central government investigators launched a probe into numerous officials in Tianjin's judicial departments.

As part of the inquiry Li Baojin, who was a deputy police chief before becoming top prosecutor in the city, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, state media previously reported, a penalty normally commuted to life imprisonment.

Ten held in China after fiery bus crash that killed 43
Beijing (AFP) July 21, 2014 - Chinese authorities on Monday detained 10 people after 43 died in a horrific weekend accident when a van carrying inflammable liquid hit a bus on a motorway, state media said.

Police detained the group as part of an investigation into the "illegal transportation of hazardous chemicals", a report by official news agency Xinhua said.

The collision in central Hunan province early Saturday triggered a fire and explosion which destroyed five vehicles, it said.

The death toll was previously reported to be 38.

Another six people were injured in the accident, which involved a double-decker long-distance bus, with capacity for 53 occupants.

The vehicle was travelling between the eastern coastal province of Fujian and Guizhou in the southwest when the crash occurred.

Fatal road accidents are a serious problem in China, particularly involving the country's often over-crowded long-distance buses.

In August 2012, at least 36 people died when a double-decker sleeper bus slammed into the rear of a methanol tanker and burst into flames in northern China.

The transportation of dangerous chemicals is also a major issue in China, with poor rural workers commonly flouting laws.

China's ruling Communist Party has demanded that government officials be prevented from "being disoriented and losing themselves" to the influence of Western ideals, a newspaper with close ties to the party reported Monday.

A recent circular from the party's powerful Organisation Department insists that the officials reconfirm their faith in "socialism with Chinese" characteristics through an emphasis on "deepened education" in Marxist principles, the Global Times tabloid said.

Western ideals included constitutional democracy, universal values and civil society, the report said, though it added that other influences such as superstition and religion should also be guarded against.

According to the report, the circular also requires Communist Party schools and institutes to emphasise traditional Chinese culture in their teaching, stressing that officials must protect China's spiritual independence and shun becoming a "yes-man for Western moral values".

The Global Times also said that a long-term mechanism for education should be set up to deal with the problem.

The report also noted that officials at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the top state-run think tank, said earlier in July that its main standards for evaluating officials and researchers are ideology and political discipline.

That came after they received a warning from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party enforcement organ.

The huge party, which was founded 93 years ago and has ruled China since 1949, periodically undergoes ideological spasms, often when it is in the midst of intense internal political disputes or when leaders feel China is under threat.

President Xi Jinping, party general secretary since November 2012, has vowed to restore China to greatness, and is simultaneously pushing a much-publicised campaign to cleanse the party of corruption.

The Global Times quoted an unidentified Beijing-based professor of political science as saying that China should set up its own system of core values to resist Western values.

The party, the largest in the world, gained 1.56 million members last year, it announced last month, though growth in membership slowed from 2012.

The party had 86.7 million members at the end of 2013, the Organisation Department said -- more than the entire population of Germany.

The 1.8 percent year-on-year increase was slower than the 3.1 percent gain in 2012, with the party attributing the decrease to new controls implemented to "develop the quality of party members".

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