Summary
As China celebrated the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, commentary from Xinhua News Agency highlighted how the Communist Party of China (CPC) has reshaped governance through its eight-point rules—a code aimed at curbing corruption, bureaucracy, and extravagance across all levels of government.
At a flag-raising ceremony in Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square, pigeons were released to mark the anniversary, while a feature by commentator Fucha Qiuyu reflected on the CPC’s decade-long campaign for cleaner governance.
Since adopting the eight-point rules, the CPC has investigated over 4.5 million corruption cases and disciplined 4.8 million officials, tackling misuse of public funds, lavish spending, and bureaucratic inefficiency. Officials are now evaluated through inspection tours, public feedback, and democratic meetings, embedding prevention as much as punishment.
The commentary contrasted China’s institutionalized self-reform with the collapse of the Soviet Communist Party and argued that the CPC’s success lies in “self-purification” and people-supervised governance, not political rotation.
Analysts quoted in the article said the reforms offer a model of “Eastern governance”, showing that anti-corruption can be sustained through continuity rather than electoral cycles.