Hunan Daily·New Hunan Client, December 24 (Reporter Liu Yanjuan) "Is sending a few red envelopes considered bribery?" "At the critical moment of the term change, a penny is also bribery. You must not do such things." On December 24, in the WeChat group of Heting Community, Heting

Hunan Daily·New Hunan Client, December 24 (Reporter Liu Yanjuan) "Is sending a few red envelopes considered bribery?" "At the critical moment of the term change, a penny is also bribery. You must not do such things." On December 24, in the WeChat group of Heting Community, Heting Town, Ningyuan County, the town discipline inspection committee cadres answered the questions raised by the masses about election bribery.

With the launch of the election of the "two committees" for the village (community) term change, discipline inspection and supervision agencies across the province strictly enforce the discipline of the term change, strictly control the selection and employment of personnel, and have "zero tolerance" for behaviors that violate the discipline of the term change. All localities will strengthen the coordination between counties and townships, give full play to the advantages of township discipline inspection commissions' personal supervision, and promptly and efficiently accept reports of clues of problem during the term change.

(The election site of the Party Committee of Renhexing Village, Renhe Town, Ningyuan County. Photo by Shan Minghai)

Ningyuan County started with a red envelope, a pack of cigarettes, and a meal, and proposed the "three no" iron law of "no canvassing, no gatherings, and no drinking", requiring discipline inspection and supervision cadres to enter the WeChat groups of each village to be the "sentinel" for the election of the election. At the same time, the role of 2,110 villagers’ supervisors as “intelligence officers” was used to supervise the term change trend in 422 villages and communities, and promptly inform townships of illegal and interfere with the term change elections.

Fenghuang County uses 288 village-level supervision WeChat groups in the county to cover the county's village sound, village communication and village affairs disclosure columns and other channels to promote the scope, methods and procedures for accepting letters and visits and reports, and promote the "two committees" election policy and relevant party discipline and regulations. The county Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision arranged 11 team members and 17 capable forces to enter 17 townships in the county, and adopted special inspections, open and secret inspections, random inspections and other methods to supervise the entire process of the election of the term, and resolve potential and tendency problems in a timely manner.

(Banluo Village, Ganziping Town, Fenghuang County, under the supervision of the county’s discipline inspection and supervision commission, elected the villagers’ election committee to orderly promote the term change of the “two committees”. Photo by Long Shiyu)

Shaoshan Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision dispatched 4 term change inspection teams to conduct a survey and investigation of the village situation and election situation in each village (community) and conduct on-site supervision of the term change. Yanglin Township of the city selected 14 fair and upright villagers through the recommendations of the village party branches and the masses, as the atmosphere supervisors of the village election, covering 7 villages in the township, and supervising the entire village-level election.

While conducting a good publicity on candidates' integrity review and discipline promotion for the change of leadership, local discipline inspection and supervision agencies keep a close eye on important links, key procedures, and key personnel, strengthen supervision, open communication and reporting channels, quickly verify and promptly feedback, and seriously investigate and punish violations of discipline and law such as canvassing and bribery, buying and selling officials, and gangs and evil forces, and protect the election of the change of leadership.

[Editor: Liu Yanjuan]

[Source: Hunan Daily·New Hunan Client]