First, look at the protracted nature of the anti-corruption struggle from the lack of a clean government culture.
The reasons why the anti-corruption struggle is protracted, complicated and arduous are various and very complicated, and the role of clean government culture can not be ignored. The concept and belief of clean government culture plays an important role in establishing a correct world outlook, outlook on life, values and status, power and interests, making clean government and honesty a social pursuit and forming a good social fashion.
Judging from the current situation in China, the activities of building a clean and honest culture are heating up all over the country, which has played a positive role in striving to create a social atmosphere of honesty, honor and shame. However, it goes without saying that there is still a big gap between party member cadres, especially leading cadres, and even the public as a spiritual concept and belief of honesty and integrity, and their subjective control over behavior.
First, corruption is still serious in some areas. In recent years, through the joint efforts of the whole party and the people of the whole country, China's anti-corruption struggle has achieved remarkable results and the momentum of corruption has been curbed. At the same time, corruption in some areas is still serious, some outstanding problems that harm the interests of the masses have not been fundamentally solved, and major cases still occur from time to time. 1992 to 2004, the average number of leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels who were punished by party discipline and political discipline for corruption was not less than 16 per year; In 2005, it was reduced to13; In 2006, it declined, but there are still a number of cases of leading cadres who violate discipline and law, such as Chen Liangyu, Zheng Xiaoyu and Du Shicheng. Under the situation of constantly maintaining the high-pressure situation of anti-corruption and establishing and perfecting the system of punishing and preventing corruption with equal emphasis on education, system and supervision, the appearance of these serious corrupt behaviors not only shows that the task of fighting corruption and promoting honesty is still arduous, but also shows that there is still a long way to go to establish the concept and belief of honesty.
Second, there are some hidden rules and corruption generalization that lead to corruption. There is no denying that the selection of cadres is basically carried out in accordance with the procedures of the appointment regulations, and the phenomenon of "running away from officials and wanting officials" has decreased but still exists; Government affairs are open, but it is not uncommon to do well in daily life, such as going to school, seeing a doctor and doing things. By looking for relationships, showing kindness and giving gifts; The upside-down concept of honor and disgrace of "laughing at the poor but not the rich", the unhealthy trend of "money comes first" and "rich people have social status", and commercial bribery in different degrees in all walks of life, if not paid attention to and changed, may make corruption generalize into a social phenomenon, and make the public fall into the strange circle of "hating corruption" but "unconsciously getting involved in it and doing things", which is objectively a kind of corrupt activity.
Ideas guide behavior, and faith leads life. The culture of clean government is very important to prevent corruption. The transformation and establishment of ideas and beliefs has never happened overnight. It will take a long time for party member cadres, especially leading cadres, to establish the concept of clean government, advocate the belief of clean government and consciously resist corruption and change.
Second, look at the complexity of the anti-corruption struggle from the change of corruption means.
At present, a new trend of corruption and anti-corruption struggle in China is: on the one hand, the anti-corruption struggle has achieved remarkable results, and the coverage rate and incidence rate of corruption cases are declining; On the other hand, the types of cases have changed, and some cases are more secretive. Naked cases of buying and selling officials and obvious corruption cases in the engineering field are decreasing, and new types of power and money transactions involving commercial bribery, including land and real estate, are increasing.
Compared with the common cases in the past, the new power and money transaction cases are more concealed. Some people summarize it as: from public to private, from direct to indirect, from spot to option. The new transaction of power and money has increased the difficulty of the anti-corruption struggle. First, corrupt officials are more closely related to commercial interests, and many of them also involve interest arrangements such as shares and options; Second, the forms of corruption are more diversified, involving a wider range, and the means are more subtle, and some trading links even extend overseas; Third, the intelligent level of corruption is constantly improving, and anti-corruption work needs more courage and wisdom.
Three, from the current situation of supervision mechanism to see the arduousness of the anti-corruption struggle
Strengthening supervision is an important part of accelerating the establishment of a system for punishing and preventing corruption, but compared with the requirements of the anti-corruption struggle, the current supervision and restriction are not strong enough, as shown in:
In terms of supervision mechanism, the problem of inadequate supervision or even absence of supervision institutions such as the National People's Congress, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Commission for Discipline Inspection needs to be solved urgently. As an important part of the supervision mechanism, social public supervision and public opinion supervision have not been defined and guaranteed at the legal level and have not played a better role because of the rights, scope, degree of participation and depth of supervision of supervisors.
In the supervision of administrative power, some regulatory laws and regulations are still not perfect, imperfect and flawed; Some examination and approval powers are unscientific in allocation, unreasonable in restriction, not open in operation and not in place in supervision; Some rules stipulate that the procedures are not rigorous, and the power of interpretation and discretion is too large. For example, Zheng Xiaoyu, the former director of the State Administration of Pharmaceutical Products, who has been investigated and punished, used the loopholes in the supervision and management system to pervert the law.
There are still some weak links in inner-party supervision to be strengthened. In the phenomenon that people often say that "the superior supervision is too far, the peer supervision is too soft, and the subordinate supervision is too difficult", with the gradual improvement of the inspection system and the trial dispatch of the secretary of the Disciplinary Committee, the situation of "the superior supervision is too far" is gradually improving, while the peer and subordinate supervision is still a long-standing problem. Among the members of the leading group, only the "top leader" is a subordinate, and it is common for the "top leader" to blink and decide major issues, mainly by the "top leader"; It is rare to dare to adhere to principles and supervise the "number one". Therefore, Chen Liangyu can still use his power to seek huge illegal interests for others and relatives, which fully demonstrates the importance and urgency of strengthening the supervision mechanism of power operation.
In short, under the guidance of the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we should fully understand the long-term, complex and arduous nature of the anti-corruption struggle, seriously study and effectively solve various deep-seated problems that induce and encourage corruption. This is an objective need to continuously promote anti-corruption construction and carry out the anti-corruption struggle in a deep and lasting way, and cannot be taken lightly. (The author is the director of the mission research office of Shangrao Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection)