China Acts to Curb Official Corruption
China announced its newest anti-corruption measures on Sunday, ordering senior government officials to take fewer and shorter trips and to leave their wives at home unless their presence is “really necessary.”
The regulations, announced by the Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council, also prohibit government workers from accepting trips paid for by foreign businesses and bar junior officials from traveling abroad on government business.
The austerity measures are the latest in the leadership’s anti-corruption campaign, which was launched after the June crackdown on the democracy movement.
The government also banned “travel in a roundabout way.”
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