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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC Central Committee) has decided to strengthen inspections of the assets and expenses of party and state leaders, as well as to tighten control over the commercial activities of their close relatives. The official text is posted on the website of the PRC government.
Under the new rules, China will refine the system for declaring personal information of leading cadres. Inspections will be launched in all cases where a family's assets or actual expenses clearly exceed its official income.
Beijing intends to pay special attention to systematic supervision of the business activities of spouses, children, as well as sons-in-law and daughters-in-law of party workers.
Earlier, Chinese leader Xi Jinping repeatedly compared corruption to a "tiger blocking the country's path of development" and called for completely depriving bribe-takers of hideouts.