Party's eight-point code sets self-discipline benchmark
With other countries troubled by disruption and corruption, regulation lights path ahead, experts say
What does the Eight-Point Regulation cover?
The Eight-Point Regulation is a set of rules adopted by the Communist Party of China leadership in December 2012, designed to address four deep-rooted, chronic bureaucratic issues, including official privileges and extravagant banquets. Its eight points are as follows:
. Doing better research and analysis and truly understanding actual conditions when doing grassroots studies.
. Streamlining meetings and improving the way they are conducted.
. Making documents and briefing papers more concise and improving writing styles.
. Standardizing procedures for working visits abroad.
. Improving security work and continuing to observe the principle of doing what improves relations with the people.
. Improving news reports.
. Having strict rules on the publication of articles.
. Promoting frugality and the strict observance of rules on incorruptibility in government.
In March, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee issued a notice calling for a Party-wide campaign to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation.
