Since 80 percent of civil servants and 95 percent of leading officials are Party members, the tasks of Party internal inspection and state supervision highly overlap, requiring a more unified supervisory system, Li said.
New supervisory commissions will share staff and offices with the Party disciplinary inspection agencies.
The draft law has incorporated practices of the pilot reform of the supervisory system, which began in Beijing, Shanxi and Zhejiang in December 2016, and then was expanded nationwide in November 2017, Li said.
Among the new practices in the pilot reform, a new detention system has been tested to replace the practice of “shuang gui,” an intra-party disciplinary practice, exercised by Party disciplinary officials, where a Party member under investigation must cooperate with questioning at a set time and place.
“Replacing ‘shuang gui’ with rigorously-regulated detention will help settle a long-lingering legal problem,” Li said. “This has displayed our resolve and confidence to realize full law-based governance.”
As of now, supervisory commissions have been founded at the provincial, city and county levels across the country.
(Xinhua)