China’s Powerful Anti-Graft Watchdog Moves to Boost Transparency
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China’s top anti-corruption body, a powerful institution at the heart of the country's anti-corruption campaign, is taking its first major step toward public transparency, seven years after it was formally established.
The National Supervisory Commission on Oct. 28 released a draft regulation on information disclosure, inviting public feedback on a proposal designed to strengthen oversight of its own investigators and grant the public greater access to its work. The move signals a potential shift for a vast supervisory system that has held sweeping powers over millions of public sector employees with little outside scrutiny.
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- China’s National Supervisory Commission released a draft regulation on information disclosure, inviting public feedback until Nov. 26, 2024, aiming to increase transparency in its anti-corruption work.
- The draft outlines proactive disclosures but exempts broad categories, such as state secrets and information affecting national or social security, without a formal request process for additional information.
- Experts urge refining exemptions, adding a disclosure-upon-request mechanism, anonymizing personal data, and involving third-party review to improve transparency and accountability.
- King & Capital law firm
- Yan Huainan, a senior partner at Beijing's King & Capital law firm, believes that the National Supervisory Commission's draft regulation on information disclosure should explicitly outline what information can be obtained upon request. He highlights this as crucial for truly protecting the public's right to know, along with specifying the channels for requests and legal remedies for denials.
- By 2007：
- China’s broader government information disclosure rules were first established.
- 2018：
- The National Supervisory Commission was created through the passage of the Supervision Law.
- October 28, 2025：
- The National Supervisory Commission released a draft regulation on information disclosure and invited public feedback.
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