On September 8, a section appeared on the Commission's website, where any citizen can file a complaint, including an anonymous one, about inappropriate behavior of a civil servant during holidays, including the receipt of expensive gifts.
When filing an application, a citizen can indicate the region in which the violation was recorded and select the agency to which he or she would like to send the relevant information. The service provides the opportunity to send information to the agencies regulating the areas of activity with the highest corruption risks: land and property relations, housing and utilities, social protection of the population, and environmental protection. In addition, a citizen can send a complaint to the prosecutor's office, internal affairs agencies, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The service will operate for four weeks until the end of the holidays. The creation of such temporary channels for informing is widely practiced in China: for example, the Commission launches a similar service on the eve of the New Year (Spring Festival).
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese people traditionally give each other gifts, including "moon gingerbread", a type of pastry with a filling. Over time, this delicacy has become one of the symbols of corruption. There have been cases when civil servants received "moon gingerbread" packed in expensive boxes inlaid with precious stones, sometimes with money, jewelry and even cell phones. That is why "moon gingerbread" has become one of the objects of anti-corruption efforts.
Fighting the tradition of giving expensive gifts to civil servants is an integral part of China's policy in recent years aimed at countering corruption, waste and hedonism in the state apparatus. Thus, in December 2012, the CPC Central Committee approved the "8-point Rules", which, among other things, ordered officials to be frugal, strictly limit themselves in the use of official vehicles and travel expenses, to abandon the practice of blocking roads for motorcades, to refrain from any pomp and circumstance, and to refrain from the use of the "pomp and circumstance".