A Look at Communist China''s System of Surveillance Over Political Integrity from the Standpoint of the Fight Against Corruption - using the examples of China''s Laws and Regulations Inspection, Surveillance Department and the People''s Procuratorate

• Main Authors: Tseng, Tai-Wei, 曾台偉
• Other Authors: Pan, Hsi-Tang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1997
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46163982636412128429

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 中國大陸研究所 === 85 === 　　In taking a general look at politics in today''s world, whether in developed countries or in developing countries, whether in democratic or socialist countries, they all face the same issue, and that is how to eliminate corruption involving power and monetary exchanges that exist in government administration, and to establish a clean, honest and capable government system. There are many developing countries in the world that have not resolved the problem of order in the market and the abuse of power for self-gain by officers who control contracts and agreements, and because of this, their path toward modernisation have been impeded by serious corruption involving government officers which unavoidably leads to social disorder, stagnation, an ineffective government. It is evideent that the key to realising modernisation for developing countries lies in their ability to establish order in the market and a system for maintaining the integrity of government officers. The government of Communist China, since its establishment in 1949, has instigated on various scales different methods and different forms of movements of rectification, consolidation of the party organisation, remediation by punishment of official profiteers, and anti-corruption. However, corruption has continued non-stop, especially after the drastic changes of modernisation and opening exchanges through abuse of power, which gradually intensified to become one of the factors that incurred the 1989 “Tiananmen Massacre.” In order to curb this unhealthy trend and to prosper, on August 20, 1993, the government of China launched on a grand scale and with great speed and determination, the fight “against corruption, and advocation of honesty ”, which led to three major corruption cases being exposed in 1995. In order to delve deeper into the factors involving these cases, the main points studied in this paper will be the conditions of China’s fight against corruption at that time, and the capabilities of the Political Integrity Surveillance System and its future development. 　　Through the collection of qualitative data, this paper will adopt the methods of historical research, systems research and structural function as a basis, and use the methods of dacument analysis and seconndary material analysis to do a comprehensive historical conspectus and a discussion on the problems that exist in the evolution, responsibilities and working capability of the Laws and Regulations Inspection Committee, the Surveillance System of Communist China. This paper will also analyse the effectiveness and the functions of the Laws and Regulations Inspection Committee, the Surveillance Department, and the People’s Procuratorate etc., in China’s process of establishing anti-corruption and political integrity. 　　Studies in this paper have discovered that: internationally, the anti-corruption movement has become a trend of the times; leaders of China stress that the fight against corruption is a long-term struggle; corruption in Mainland China is spreading and becoming worse, and is the main cause of societal incongruity and danger and political instability; and since anti-corruption has low political risk and can be used ot win the people’s favour, and other such factors, promoting anti-corruption has become an important tool for post-Deng leaders or JIANG Zemin to wield and maintain power. Therefore, in the future, anti-corruption movements will continue either by the Chinese communist regime or the Political Integrity Surveillance System of Communist China. Since the basic system of rules of the Political Integrity Surveillance System is handicapped and its ideology is erroneous, the rules of surveillance contain defects and the whole system cannot be carried out according to laws and policies, and other such restricting factors, the current situation of China’s fight against corruption is facing a harsh challenge. The communist regime’s boasting of its slogans, “serve the people wholeheartedly” and “let the people rule and decide and the people’s expectations of government administrative integrity, are probably just a dream "impossible to realise" and a dream "lost."