国内英语新闻:Official calls for better supervision in China's state-run firms

BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese official has urged the Communist Party's disciplinary and supervisory bodies to improve their work in companies and financial organs owned by the central government.

He Guoqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, made the remark at a meeting in Beijing on Monday.

The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has issued a guideline to strengthen its supervisory bodies within companies and financial organs owned by the central government.

He, who heads the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, asked companies and financial organs run by the central government to further implement the guideline and promote the Party's anti-corruption effort.

The Party's disciplinary organs should constantly improve their officials' political loyalty and build up the system for preventing and punishing corruption, He said.