City thinks devices will stem govt car misuse

GUANGZHOU - The capital city of South China's Guangdong province expects to bring the once-common misuse of official vehicles under control by putting electronic monitoring systems on all local government cars by the end of the year.

Su Zhijia, deputy Party chief of Guangzhou, said the city's Party disciplinary authority has placed priorities on better managing the use of the local government's large number of official cars and on preventing such cars from being put to private purposes.

"Guangzhou started equipping its government cars with the vehicular electronic monitoring system in June, and more than 10,000 government cars will have the equipment by the end of August," said Su, who also leads the city's Party discipline inspection commission.