Leadership evaluation weighed

Lawmakers should play a greater role in Party oversight, experts say

Experts have called for lawmakers to get more involved in nominating, evaluating and supervising officials, as the Communist Party of China considers reforming how capable leaders are selected.

Jiang Ming'an, a law professor at Peking University, said lawmakers should play a bigger role in selecting capable officials and dismissing incompetent ones, which is a constitutional right but one that has sometimes been undermined.