PARTY'S EIGHT-POINT CODE SETS SELF-DISCIPLINE BENCHMARK

With other countries troubled by disruption and corruption, regulation lights path ahead, experts say

Thirteen years have passed since the Communist Party of China introduced a code to promote self-discipline and enforce strict governance in December 2012, shortly after Xi Jinping was elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

The concise yet powerful Eight-Point Regulation, aimed at improving Party and government conduct and curbing bureaucracy, extravagance and corruption, has since become an important cornerstone of modern Chinese governance.