BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Wang Qishan called for committed efforts to implement the revised discipline-inspection regulation at a televised conference on Monday.
Wang, head of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Party's top anti-graft body, said the new regulation, released Thursday, would improve intra-Party supervision, further underpinning Party governance.
The revised regulation increased the scope of CCDI inspections to include the heads of leading Party members' groups at higher people's courts and provincial-level procuratorates; leading officials of ministries; as well as key state-owned enterprises and financial entities.
In the previous version, inspections concentrated on leading officials in provincial governments, CPC provincial-level committees, provincial political advisory bodies and provincial legislatures.
According to Wang, discipline inspections have intensified since the 18th CPC National Congress in late 2012, following which the body had overseen 118 inspections.
Wang added that CCDI inspection teams had handled about 1.2 million letters of complaint and conducted interviews with more than 20,000 people.
Inspection tours have led to the investigation of more than half of the leading officials probed by the CCDI, Wang said.
Wang urged the inspection teams to keep in mind the cause of the Party and the interests of the people, and to be courageous in their work.
The new rules were adopted at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in late June. They are the first changes since the regulation was introduced in 2009.