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Constructive Measures 　　The reform of China’s supervision system made further progress in January with the launch of independent supervisory commissions in Beijing Municipality and Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces to oversee all public employees. 　　The commissions were established following a pilot program approved by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress （NPC）， the top legislature， in December 2016. The program is intended to establish supervisory commissions at three levels―provincial， municipal and county―to form a unified， authoritative and efficient supervision system. It comes with a timetable that requires establishing the provincial supervisory commissions in the three regions by March and at municipal and county levels by June. 　　A national supervisory commission is expected to be established in March 2018， according to Wang Qishan， Secretary of the Communist Party of China （CPC） Central Commission for Discipline Inspection （CCDI）， the Party’s top anti-corruption watchdog， in a report at the CCDI’s seventh plenary session in January. 　　 An institutional reform 　　“The reform aims to cover all those who hold public posts and fight corruption resolutely，”said Wang Yukai， a professor at the Chinese Academy of Governance， adding that it offers new measures for the rule of law and governing the CPC strictly that will improve the anti-corruption drive. 　　The new system integrates the functions of the current supervision authorities， corruption prevention agencies， as well as departments handling bribery and dereliction of duty or prevention of duty-related crimes under procuratorates at different levels. 　　According to Xiao Pei， Vice Minister of Supervision， the new commissions will supervise not only functionaries in Party organs and legislative， administrative and judicial bodies， but also members of nonCommunist parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. They will also monitor executives of stateowned enterprises a