Crackdown on extravagance to continue during holiday
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THE disciplinary watchdog of China’s ruling party has promised that it will continue to curb official extravagance and other malpractices during the upcoming May Day holiday.
Xu Chuanzhi, a senior official with the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said there would be “zero tolerance” and “severe penalties” for violators in an interview posted on the commission’s website.
Spending public funds on feasts and private tours, official car use infringements, gift-giving, and holding excessively extravagant wedding ceremonies or funerals are “diseases” which are prone to happen during holidays, Xu said.
The May Day holiday will run from May 1 to 3 this year.
Party committees at various levels should alert officials to discipline themselves, their families and subordinates during key holiday periods, Xu said.
In the case of serious violations, both violators and their leading officials will be held responsible, he said.
Before traditional holidays over the past year, such as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the National Day Holiday, New Year and Spring Festival, the commission issued circulars urging officials to refrain from luxurious banquets and gift-giving.
Since the implementation of the “8-point” anti-bureaucracy and formalism rules, 42,666 people had been punished nationwide by the end of March.
The rules were introduced by the central leadership in late 2012. They order Party officials to reduce pomp and ceremony, bureaucratic visits and meetings.
“Though problems of harmful work styles have reduced in their brazen form after more than one year of the campaign, they are being carried out in a more concealed way,” Xu said.
Lavish feasts are now being served in dining halls, households and at rural restaurants. Some officials are frequenting more secretive private clubs and gifts are given via online payment platforms, according to Xu.
“Finding new ways to root out and effectively solve such concealed forms of violations are the difficulties we face,” Xu said.
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