Plenary Session statement says inspectors fulfilled their duties China has gained and consolidated "crushing momentum" in its fight against corruption, according to a statement released on Saturday following a key Communist Party of China conference. The Seventh Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, held from Wednesday to Saturday in Beijing, is the Party's most important conference before its upcoming 19th National Congress, which will open on Wednesday. The statement said the "crushing momentum" of the fight against corruption, noted late last year at a Political Bureau meeting, has now been "consolidated". During the session, the senior officials discussed and approved a work report of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country's top anti-graft watchdog. The work report will be delivered to the congress. Participants at the session reviewed the work of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection over the past five years and agreed that discipline inspection commissions at all levels have fulfilled the duties endowed by the Party Constitution and have comprehensively pushed forward the strict governance of the Party. The discipline inspection commissions have been working hard to build a clean Party and root out corruption, firmly upholding the eight-point frugality code put forward by the CPC Central Committee in late 2012. The statement also said that the commissions have made full use of their inspections, prioritizing discipline, and have advanced the reform of discipline inspection and the country's supervisory system. Moreover, the commissions have built groups of staff in discipline inspection and supervision that both the Party and the people can trust, while consistently improving the accountability system, uncompromisingly containing the spread of corruption and purifying the political ecology within the CPC, the statement said. The plenum endorsed a decision made by the Political Bureau to expel Sun Zhengcai, a former member of the Political Bureau and former Chongqing Party secretary, and eleven other senior officials from the CPC. Since members of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection were elected in late 2012, the top anti-graft watchdog has undertaken a massive campaign against corruption and extravagance. Li Chengyan, head of Peking University's Center for Anti-Corruption Studies, said the Party's upcoming 19th National Congress will have great significance for the country's anti-corruption work. "The 19th National Congress will summarize the work of the CCDI in the past five years, and some of the current thought on anti-corruption, like 'fighting both tigers (senior corrupt officials) and flies (lower-level corrupt officials)', will be highlighted," he said. party wristbands24 hour wristbands coupon1 inch wide rubber bandscustom rubber band braceletsfidget spinner bracelet
Yang Shichai on board his garbage collection ship Canghai No 9 in the East China Sea. [Photo by Hua Zhibo/For China Daily] A businessman who once made a living from the ocean now spends his time and money on scooping trash from its waters. The garbage collection ship Canghai No 9 has just returned from its 438th mission and is moored in the port of the Shengsi Islands in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province. Measuring 16.5 meters long by 3.6 meters wide, the ship has a loading capacity of 21 metric tons. Its deck holds a big basket of trash, including plastic bags, bottles and disposable meal boxes. Its owner, Yang Shichai, is busy moving trash collected from the ocean off the ship. Its final destination is a garbage treatment plant on the island. Designed by Yang, the trash-collecting ship cost him about 530,000 yuan ($80,800) to build. Since it was put into use in May 2016, the ship has retrieved more than 2,000 cubic meters of garbage from the ocean. I've earned some money from the ocean. I just want to give back what I've gained, said Yang, who has tanned skin and scars on his hands from working long hours outdoors every day. Growing up on the shore, he started a refueling service for ships at sea at the age of 18. Later, he set up a company dedicated to recycling the oil residue. But his focus shifted from making a profit to cleaning up trash because of a video. A dead whale was found in the Pacific and its belly was full of trash, Yang said. The horrible scene from that video stuck in my mind.
