context: A national politico-legal rectification campaign was launched on 27 Feb 2021, following a pilot trial in December 2020. The campaign aims at ‘purifying’ the Party and furthering the anti-corruption campaign ahead of the Party centenary.
Chen Yixin 陈一新 Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission secretary and National Rectification Leading Group vice-chair, held a meeting on 10 Jun 2021, to summarise the major achievements of the rectification campaign so far. Chen encouraged ‘self-revolution’ and stressed four achievements
- creating more effective propaganda work
- upholding the ‘four-four-two’
- arranging educational sessions in prisons, detention centres and courts
- praising exemplary figures
- hunting ‘tigers’ and swatting ‘flies’
- verifying tip-offs and deepening investigations
- breaking connections between criminals and cadres
- tackling deeply entrenched cases
- serving the people
- countering fraudsters
- cutting bureaucratic red tape
- freezing some illegal or unreasonable surveillance equipment
Chen also outlines the following seven methods employed in the campaign
- orderly planning
- general policy orientation outlined by the Party Centre
- specific details crafted by the Leading Group
- actual policies implemented by provincial Leading Groups
- clear division of responsibilities
- main responsibility held by Party committee
- direct responsibility held by the Political Legal Commission
- shared responsibility held by the Commission for Discipline Inspection and various departments
- effective propaganda work
- balancing lenient and strict policies
- lenient policies for active self-reporting
- strict policies for passive non-cooperators
- effective guidance from the provincial level
- appropriate supervision and guidance from the Centre
- integration with the Party history campaign