Plenary Session statement says inspectors fulfilled their duties China has gained and consolidated "crushing momentum" in its fight against corruption, according to a statement released on Saturday following a key Communist Party of China conference. The Seventh Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, held from Wednesday to Saturday in Beijing, is the Party's most important conference before its upcoming 19th National Congress, which will open on Wednesday. The statement said the "crushing momentum" of the fight against corruption, noted late last year at a Political Bureau meeting, has now been "consolidated". During the session, the senior officials discussed and approved a work report of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country's top anti-graft watchdog. The work report will be delivered to the congress. Participants at the session reviewed the work of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection over the past five years and agreed that discipline inspection commissions at all levels have fulfilled the duties endowed by the Party Constitution and have comprehensively pushed forward the strict governance of the Party. The discipline inspection commissions have been working hard to build a clean Party and root out corruption, firmly upholding the eight-point frugality code put forward by the CPC Central Committee in late 2012. The statement also said that the commissions have made full use of their inspections, prioritizing discipline, and have advanced the reform of discipline inspection and the country's supervisory system. Moreover, the commissions have built groups of staff in discipline inspection and supervision that both the Party and the people can trust, while consistently improving the accountability system, uncompromisingly containing the spread of corruption and purifying the political ecology within the CPC, the statement said. The plenum endorsed a decision made by the Political Bureau to expel Sun Zhengcai, a former member of the Political Bureau and former Chongqing Party secretary, and eleven other senior officials from the CPC. Since members of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection were elected in late 2012, the top anti-graft watchdog has undertaken a massive campaign against corruption and extravagance. Li Chengyan, head of Peking University's Center for Anti-Corruption Studies, said the Party's upcoming 19th National Congress will have great significance for the country's anti-corruption work. "The 19th National Congress will summarize the work of the CCDI in the past five years, and some of the current thought on anti-corruption, like 'fighting both tigers (senior corrupt officials) and flies (lower-level corrupt officials)', will be highlighted," he said. rubber band bracelet makerwhere can i buy silicone braceletscustom silicone wristbandscustom friendship braceletssilicone wristbands canada
NANJING -- A Chinese research team used two critical genes to regulate the size of mice organs and bodies as similarly seen in the sci-fi movie Ant-man.The research team, led by Professor Xu Yujun of the Nanjing Medical University in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, said the research could lead to new methods of human tumor therapy.Xu said they removed two genes called Pum1 and Pum2 in the mice's embryonic periods and observed the newborn mice bodies were integrally and proportionally smaller than normal ones. Researchers can exclude the effects of other factors like feeding and growth hormones.Further study showed that mice embryos without Pum1 were already smaller than others during the 13.5 days of their embryonic periods.Knocking out the Pum1 gene did not affect the lifetime or health conditions of the mice, said Xu. He pointed out that the research team observed the mice over 96 weeks, which is equivalent to the human age of 70. No significant defects were shown in the mice.We believe without the Pum1 gene, the growth speed of cells slows, which led to a reduction of cell quantity, said Xu. He explained that the genes play a regulatory role in the process of RNA producing proteins, so as to control the proliferation of cells.Xu said another member of Pum gene family, Pum2, can affect the mice's weight, but its effect was less significant than Pum1.His team has achieved a precise control over the size of mice after they found any reduction of Pum1 or Pum2 can lead to the reduction of size.The mechanism has great potential to be used for treating human tumors, Xu said. A tumor is an abnormal mass of cells that proliferate uncontrollably. We are looking forward to opening a new road for human tumor therapy using gene technology for regulating the speed of cell proliferation.The research result was published in the latest issue of Cell Press, a top international journal in the field of bioscience.
