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Combating corruption and building a clean government are consistent and clear political stances of our Party, and major political tasks that the Party must continue to address in its self-revolution. Severely punishing corruption involving collusion between government and business must be a top priority in this crucial battle. We must resolutely crack down on profit-seeking behavior based on power, resolutely prevent various interest groups and powerful organizations from infiltrating the political sphere, continuously purify the political environment, promote the construction of a new type of clean and harmonious relationship between government and business, and promote high-quality economic and social development. The second episode of the television documentary series "Never Stop, Never Back Down," titled "Severely Punishing Corruption Involving Collusion Between Government and Business," tells the story of how discipline inspection and supervision organs focus on corruption cases involving intertwined political and economic issues, severely punishing problems such as using business to support officials, officials protecting businesses, and the integration of officials and businessmen, and resolutely breaking down the "community of interests" involving collusion between government and business. It aired on CCTV-1 at 8 PM on January 12th, and was simultaneously broadcast on CCTV News' new media platforms.
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[Narration] A sound political environment and a healthy business environment, like the natural environment, need to be carefully protected. Once polluted, they will have a profound negative impact on social and economic development.
Luo Baoming (former vice chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the 13th National People's Congress): My corruption crimes have greatly damaged Hainan's business environment and seriously damaged Hainan's political ecology.
Kang Zhihui (staff member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission): Luo Baoming had long been deeply involved in collusion with businessmen and bosses, even at the cost of sacrificing the long-term interests of social and economic development.
[Narration] Under the sustained high pressure of the anti-corruption campaign, the forms of corruption involving collusion between government and business are constantly evolving. Some people deliberately separate receiving money from doing favors in terms of time and space, continuing to amass wealth in secret even after retirement, but ultimately they cannot escape punishment under the law.
Xu Xianping (former member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission): I once said, "The world is truly amazing; you only realize that after retirement." I completely let myself go and lost all sense of reason.
Zhu Zhen (Second-level Inspector of the Second Supervision and Inspection Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission): Retirement should not mean fading away from one's principles, nor should it mean lowering one's standards and requirements.
[Narration] Becoming an official and getting rich are two separate paths, an inviolable ironclad rule. Some people, however, take chances, engaging in both official and business activities, believing themselves to be clever, but in the end, they are only burying their heads in the sand and trying to cover up their crimes.
Chen Hongsheng (former Party Secretary and Chairman of the CPPCC Heihe City Committee, Heilongjiang Province): The collusion between officials and businessmen was the first and most fatal step that led me down the path of crime, and it is also what I regret the most.
Wu Xiangdong (Second Special Inspector of the National Supervisory Commission): Severely punishing corruption involving collusion between government and business will ultimately benefit the entire society and everyone living in it.
[Narration] Episode 2 of "Never Stop, Never Back Down": "Severely Punish Corruption Through Collusion Between Government and Business". Please stay tuned.
(Website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission)
