Regulations on Reporting Major Personal Matter by Leading Officials
(January 31, 1997)

　　Article 1

　　These Regulations are formulated with a view to improving the management and control of leading officials, to promoting the improvement of the Party's style of work, and to building a clean government and improving the leading official's ethical conscience.

　　Article 2

　　For purpose of these Regulations, leading officials include he officials at or above the rank of deputy magistrate or deputy division director who hold leading or non-leading positions in party organizations, departments under the People's Congress, government departments, departments under the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), judicial and procuratorial organs at all levels, officials at and above the rank equal to deputy county magistrate or deputy division director

　　Article 3

　　The following major personal matters shall be reported:

　　(1) Building, buying, selling or renting of private houses and taking part in fund0raising for construction of houses by themselves, their spouse and children living together with them;

　　(2) Personal involvement in wedding ceremonies or funeral services for themselves or close relatives (excluding the activities only involve their close relatives);

　　(3) Their or their children's marriage with foreigners and migration of their spouse and children to foreign countries and region;

　　(4) Going aboard (countries and regions) for personal reasons and their activities there and regions;

　　(5) Their spouse or children being investigated or punished by law or discipline enforcement organs or suspected of being guilty of crimes; and

　　(6) Their spouse or children running self-employed or private industrial or commercial businesses, contracting or leasing State-owned or collective-owned industrial or commercial enterprises, Beijing employed by wholly foreign-owned enterprises, Chinese-foreign contractual joint ventures as executives or working with representative office of foreign corporations or corporations from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as executives.

　　Other major matters they think they should report.

　　Article 4

　　The matters listed in Article 3 of the Regulations shall be reported in written form within one month from the date when what are mentioned in that Article take place. Where it cannot be done within the time limit for special reasons, the report shall be made later with explanations for the delay attached. Where approval is required beforehand according to relevant regulations, such regulations shall apply. Where leading officials themselves believe that prior approval is necessary, they may apply for it.

　　Article5

　　Party Committee at each level and its Discipline inspection Commission, Party leading members' group of People's Congress, the Government, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the People's Court and the People's Procuratorate at each level, and the Party leading members' group (Party Committees) of the departments or units subordinate to them (including institutions, the same below) shall be responsible for handling the reports submitted by the leading officials at the same level (such reports shall be handled by organs at the corresponding levels where there are no Party leading members' groups or Party committees, the same below). Reports submitted by leading officials of the international bodies of departments or units shall be handled by the organizational and personnel departments of the departments or units.

　　Reports submitted by managing officials of public organizations, enterprises or institutions mentioned in Article 2 of the Regulations shall be handled by Party Committees (or Party leading members' group) of the enterprises or institutions themselves.

　　Article 6

　　Where a reply is needed for an application seeking instructions, the party Committee (or Party leading members' group), or the organizational or personnel department shall carefully study the report and give a quick reply, which the applicant shall act upon.

　　Article 7

　　The content of the report shall, in general, be kept confidential. However, where an organizational deems it necessary to disclose the content or the reporter himself requests that it be disclosed, it may be done within certain limits and in a proper manner.

　　Article 8

　　Where a leading official, in violation of the Regulations, fails to report or does not report truthfully major personal matters, the organization he belongs to shall, in light of the seriousness of the case, criticize him, require him to put it right within a time limit, order him to make self-criticism, or issue a notice of criticism within a certain range of people.

　　Article 9

　　Party committees, governments, discipline inspection and supervision departments, organizational and personnel departments at various levels shall conduct strict inspection of and supervision over the enforcement of these Regulations.

　　These Regulations shall go into effect as of the date of their release.