CCDI criticizes formalism, corruption in hotel collapse, chemical plant explosion

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) criticized some government bodies and individual officials for engaging in formalism, bureaucracy, malpractice and corruption while disclosing details of the investigation into the collapse of a hotel used as a COVID-19 quarantine center in East China’s Fujian Province last year and the explosion at a chemical plant in East China’s Jiangsu Province in 2019.

Investigation details revealed in a TV series broadcast by China Central Television (CCTV) since Thursday exposed the problems in relevant organs in the collapse of an illegally constructed building used as a COVID-19 quarantine center in Quanzhou, East China’s Fujian Province on March 7, 2020, which caused 29 deaths, and the deadly explosion that struck a chemical plant in Xiangshui county, Jiangsu Province on March 21, 2019, which killed 78.

These problems show that official malpractice could inflict damages to people’s lives, health and property safety, and corruption is the biggest source of pollution in the political ecosystem, the CCDI pointed out.

According to the CCDI, former official Liu Deli from the fire department of Quanzhou failed to fulfill his responsibilities, abandoned his supervision responsibility for his own personal interests and connived in the illegal reconstruction of the hotel.