Property disclosure of officials part of further anti-graft efforts

WU XIANG, A LAWYER and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Guangzhou municipal committee, urged the local Party chief and mayor to disclose the property they own so as to propel a property disclosure system for officials. The move aroused nationwide discussion because such an initiative first emerged two decades ago, yet hardly any progress has been made. Comments:

The leadership said that one of the main goals of the ongoing reform is to shut power inside a cage. One of the best cages must be the disclosure of officials' property - with their property under public supervision, they will lose the motivation for corruption, knowing that illegal properties will be reported and lead them to prison. We call for the central leadership to accelerate the building of this cage, which has been delayed too long.

Qianjiang Evening News, Feb 4