Government officials are to be banned from entering public places of entertainment in Guangzhou, the capital and largest city of China's southern Guangdong province, officials said Thursday.
They wıll not be allowed to enter areas such as night clubs, private clubs and discos, according to China's state Xinhua News Agency.
The purpose of the regulation was to “restrain excesses of greedy public officials” and to prevent them from wasting public money.
The move falls in line with a struggle against bureaucracy, formalism and the improper use of public funds in the central government since 2012.
The regulation, for which no date of enactment has been announced, would bring sanctions against officials who breach the rules, and citizens could complain by letter, phone or internet, local authorities said.
Discipline inspection agencies of China's Communist Party have been taking a hard public line in the struggle against corruption, punishıng about 182,000 officials nationwide in 2013, 13.3 percent more than in 2012.
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