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In China, Police Clash With Protesters Who Invested in Illegal Schemes
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The audit results, which will categorize officials as excellent, good, mediocre and poor, follow more general regulations announced last year. They are part of a campaign to professionalize the military and prevent cases such as a major embezzlement scheme by the deputy commander of the navy two years ago.
"We should use the audit results to evaluate the officials and determine how they are promoted," the Liberation Daily news article said. "People who perform badly in their economic responsibilities, their positions should be changed. They cannot be regarded as officers with potential."
"The release of this opinion demonstrates that the PLA thinks it should be a role model in society, but under a market economy sometimes PLA officials are sometimes influenced by financial gain," said one Beijing-based senior PLA officer and researcher who argued that the new rules are preemptive.
For years, the PLA was allowed to run companies, but in 1998, the government began to rein in that practice.
"Before, the government allowed the military to do business, so there was a lot of corruption," said Hu Xingdou, an economics professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology who studies corruption and says the military should be audited not by itself but by an agency under the national legislature.
"Right now, it is very hard to reform the audit procedures," Hu said. "So the PLA has to strengthen their auditing themselves. If the army is corrupt, they cannot protect the country."
Researchers Zhang Jie and Liu Songjie contributed to this report.
