From Reuters, via SignOnSanDiego.com:
China has punished more than 20 officials from poor inland provinces for spending extravagant amounts of money on new government buildings, state media said on Friday, in Beijing’s latest anti-corruption push.
The departments named in the probe include one seat of county government, a city finance bureau and even a mine safety office, all of which put up buildings ‘in contravention of the rules’, the official Xinhua news agency said.
In Puyang county in the poor, interior province of Henan, 18 officials were punished. The local government there spent more than 32 million yuan ($4.2 million) on a vast new office building, Xinhua reported. [Full Text]
