China's discipline agency targets holiday luxuries( Xinhua) 20:06, November 08, 2013 BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China(CPC) on Friday pledged to continue curbing extravagance and luxuries during theupcoming New Year and Spring Festival holidays.
Discipline inspection agencies will work harder to stop officials from holding feasts andexchanging gifts during the upcoming holidays, said Xu Chuanzhi, a senior official with theCPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) in an interview with netizens onthe agency's website.
The CCDI announced a ban last Friday against using public money to buy calendars,postcards and New Year cards.
Most of the cards and calendars are gifts to superiors and colleagues and a waste of publicresources, Xu said when explaining why the agency imposed the ban.
"Although sending a New Year card with public money doesn't seem like a big deal, it is asymbol of formalism and harmful to the Party's discipline," he said.
The CCDI welcomes the public to report such wrongdoings through its tip-off hotline andits website, Xu said.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional holiday in September, and the seven-dayNational Day Holiday in early October, the CCDI also issued a circular urging officials torefrain from luxurious banquets and gift-giving.
According to Xu, the agency received 917 tips-offs about official decadence during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day holidays and has been investigating them.
The campaign against extravagance started with an eight-point rule, introduced at ameeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the end of last year withthe aim of fighting bureaucracy and formalism and rejecting extravagance among Partymembers.
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