Supervisory Commissions

China has now established supervisory commissions in every county, city and province after the last remaining county Daxin in southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region set up its supervisory commission on February 25.

The new supervisory commissions nationwide incorporate existing supervisory and corruption prevention and control agencies into governments and procuratorates, and are responsible for the three major duties of supervision, investigation and punishment.

The new system expands the scope of inspection to ensure that all public servants who exercise public power are subject to supervision.

In January 2017, China started a pilot program for the new supervisory system in Beijing, as well as Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces.

The number of people under supervision rose from 210,000 to 997,000 in Beijing, from 785,000 to 1.315 million in Shanxi and from 383,000 to 701,000 in Zhejiang.

Since the end of October 2017, supervisory commissions have been set up by people’s congresses at provincial, city and county levels nationwide.

A supervision law is expected to be passed, and the national supervisory commission is expected to be formed at the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress, scheduled to open on March 5.