China will establish a national supervisory commission and push the stipulation1 of a law on national supervision2, as part of efforts to reform the country's supervisory system, according to an official communique.
中国将建立一个国家级监管委员会并推动制定有关国家监管的法律,以改革国家的监管体系。
The communique was released after the seventh plenary session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection3 of the Communist Party of China held from Friday to Sunday.
China has begun to pilot supervisory system reform in Beijing Municipality and the provinces of Shanxi and Zhejiang.
The pilot work will see the establishment of local supervisory commissions at three levels -
provincial4, municipal and county - in order to form an integrated supervision system that will be "
unified5,
authoritative6 and efficient," the communique said.
The new supervisory system will integrate the functions of current supervision authorities,
corruption7 prevention agencies, as well as departments for handling
bribery8 and dereliction of duty cases or the prevention of duty-related crimes under procuratorates at various levels, it said.