Senior leader urges stricter anti-graft rules for CPC members

XI'AN -- Senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Wang Qishan urged harsher punishment for Party members in a revised disciplinary regulation.

Wang said that although the law has set the "bottom line" for behavior, Party rules demand more from its members.

Wang, head of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, made the remarks during an inspection in northwest China's Shaanxi Province from Wednesday to Friday.

"The ruling Party's discipline and regulations must be harsher than the law, with a focus on specificity and effect," Wang said, urging to make stricter rules while scrapping those already included in the law to give Party regulations a unique role in the discipline of Party members.

The CPC has been raising the bar for its officials as an ongoing anti-corruption campaign yields results in uncovering and punishing bribery and public fund embezzlement.

Last month, a new regulation stipulated that Party officials who are irresponsible, incompetent, or exhibit undesirable work styles should be subject to "organizational adjustment," a euphemism that includes demotion and contract termination.