In response to declining government revenues, the State Council issued new rules banning officials from buying expensive alcohol, cigarettes, and gourmet meals for work events, prohibiting airport drop-offs and lavish floral displays at conferences, and urging government employees to “lead the way in living a frugal life,” while a state-run newspaper affirmed that “practicing thrift and opposing waste are the glorious tradition and fine style of our party.”
What do you think?
“I agree. Buying Panda-brand cigarettes for all eight million Party officials was really beginning to add up.”
“Oh! That makes more sense. See, I had it written backwards: ‘practicing waste and opposing thrift.’“
“I already downgraded from Maotai to Blue Label. What more do you want?”
Chen Weiguo, 25
Crab Biographer
Zhang Yuting, 29
Ninth Specialist to the Vice Deputy Assistant of Internal Diplomacy
Liu Haoran, 58
First Executive of State Armchair Manufacturing Factory, No. 2
Got a tip? Contact us at cds@chinadailyshow.net
Follow this and other leading China news at @chinadailyshow on Twitter
Leave a Reply