¡@¡@BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- The Organization Department of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) announced hereThursday that disciplinary supervision of CPC officials had achieved significant successes in its crackdown on malpractice.

¡@¡@Statistics released by the department indicate that during the past seven years, a total of 1,963 legal and disciplinary cases involving CPC officials were investigated and dealt with accordingly.

¡@¡@Some 519 officials at section chief level and above had been punished for disciplinary offences, while 5,991 officials who had been illegally promoted had been demoted.

¡@¡@Since 1998, the Organization Department has dispatched 39 inspection groups to 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in a bid to intensify the supervision of official promotions and dismissals.

¡@¡@In May 1998, the department opened a whistleblowers' hot-line encouraging people to disclose official malpractice. Enditem