中介福利(zhōngjiè fúlì):Irregular benefits via intermediary agency

The Party's central discipline inspection authority recently reported in its official newspaper that the discipline inspection authority in Jiande, East China's Zhejiang province, had found that the local archive bureau violated the Party's rules by providing its staff members with "irregular benefits" through a subordinate intermediary organization. The officials involved have been dealt with according to the Party's regulations.

Every public employee enjoys legal rights and interests, but the recompense they enjoy for doing their jobs should be in accordance with the law and Party regulations.

Since the Party's central committee issued an eight-point code to improve bureaucracy and crack down on corruption and a bad working style among Party members, violations of the Party's disciplinary code have been curbed on a large scale. However, there are still some organizations and officials that violate the rules.

In the case of the Jiande archive bureau, it is unreasonable that an intermediary organization was used to benefit the bureau's officials. The fact is the legal representative of the intermediary company is a family member of the head of the bureau. The company used the bureau's office for free and took advantage of its relationship with the bureau official to develop its business in exchange for the so-called benefits it provided the bureau officials. This was actually an illegal exchange of interests, which obviously violates the Party's regulations.

Government departments should draw clear lines between themselves and any companies and intermediary agencies they have business relations with.