BEIJING: Millions of Chinese public sector workers will be exposed to the harsh policing tactics of the Communist Party as President Xi Jinping brings his corruption crackdown to China’s sprawling bureaucracy. Further blurring the line between the state and party bodies, the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Sunday named CCDI deputy secretary Yang Xiaodu as head of the National Supervision Commission. Xi said last year that the shuanggui system would be phased out and replaced. In eastern Zhejiang province, shuanggui detention facilities are now being used as liuzhi centers, officials there said. “Our oversight work has some problems,” admitted Zhou Chengkui, a former deputy general secretary of the National People’s Congress, in a recent interview with China Law Review.

Source: Manila Times March 18, 2018 06:45 UTC