On June 27, China’s State President Xi Jinping hosted the 25th Session of the Central Leading Group for comprehensively deepening reform. At the conference, he delivered a speech in which he signaled that reform is meeting with resistance and he pointed out that the local [government] is an important force for reform. [Xi] stressed that the reform is a revolution, that [its purpose] is to change the institutional mechanisms and to remove vested interests. [Therefore], it is important to get serious about reform. Local committees at all levels will have to work hard on tackling difficult issues and on solving problems.  

People’s Daily published a commentary criticizing some government officials who passively resist the anti-corruption by sitting idle without actively carrying out their duties.

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Xinhua reported that, on June 28, 2016, Xi Jinping presided over a Politburo meeting at which the first CCP accountability regulation was reviewed and adopted.

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People’s Daily published a short video clip of a VW car, model TG, backing up and then falling down some stairs. It added some text in the form of a joke: “Reversing is truly a technical job! One must look carefully before starting!”

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Recently, China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released the latest statistics on civil servants. As of the end of 2015, there were 7.167 million civil servants in China. According to Article 2 of the Civil Servant Law, the term "civil servant" refers to those personnel who perform public duties and are included in the State administrative staffing with wages and welfare borne by the State. The National Civil Service Bureau explained that civil servants are personnel working in the Communist Party departments, the People’s National Congress, administration departments, judicial courts, procuratorial offices, democratic parties, and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, except for lower level workers.