Minitrue 2017: December—Internet Conference, Xmas
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
official conduct
Ningbo Issues Handbook on Correct Cadre Conduct
A Party handbook released in Ningbo lists 68 “improper words and actions” that Party...
Activist Ou Shaokun Denies Soliciting Prostitute
Ou Shaokun, a Guangzhou-based anti-corruption activist known for his work campaigning against...
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Ou’s Detention (Updated)
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Video: “Where Does the Taxpayers’ Money Go?”
CDT has translated a Ming’en Media (明恩传媒) video from 2012 that looks at opacity in China’s...
Chengguan Ranked China’s Least-Loved Public Officials
A new survey from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences sheds light on tarnished public...
Most Mystical Government Replies
When a government official defies all logic, some Chinese netizens chalk it up to living in a...
Tax Officials Owned Publicly Funded Luxury Resort
The South China Morning Post’s Stephen Chen reports that taxmen in Heilongjiang Province...
New Rules Aim to Contain Official Extravagance
According to the PEW Research Center, official corruption is considered a “very big...
China Vows Austerity; Giant Fish Devours $11 Million
Following a freeze on construction of new government buildings aimed at reining in embarrassingly...
Xi Jinping – Ladies’ Man?
The South China Morning Post reports a flurry in local Chinese media on Tuesday over President Xi Jinping telling a young woman in Wuhan she was beautiful. Far from the baby-kissing antics of Western politicians, China’s leaders...
‘Sex-Tape Official’ Lei Zhengfu Sentenced to Jail
After his trial began last week, Lei Zhengfu, the former party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district who was removed from office after a sex-tape leaked and went viral, has been sentenced to hefty fines and 13 years in...
Are Xi Jinping’s Austerity Measures Working?
Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times reports that China’s free-spending government elites – and the businesses that cater to them – are feeling the squeeze under new president Xi Jinping’s austerity...
Chinese Political Advisor Throws Fit at Boarding Gate
Yan Linkun, a vice chairman of Yunnan Mining Co. and local political advisor, smashed equipment at a boarding gate at Kunming Changshui Airport after missing two flights on February 19. From Josh Chin at the Wall Street Journal,...
The Economic Impact of Cleaning Up Corruption
Just before handing the baton of party power to Xi Jinping, former CCP general secretary Hu Jintao warned that corruption “could prove fatal to the party.” Since taking the reins, newly appointed general secretary Xi...
Extravagance to be Avoided at Upcoming NPC Session
In December, the CCP Politburo vowed to cut down on the “extravagance, formalism and bureaucracy” that has long been a part of official party and state conduct. On the list of extravagant activities to be nixed were...
A Little Less Decoration, A Little More Action, Please
China’s new Party leadership has vowed to reject “extravagance, formalism and bureaucracy” in government—or, as The Financial Times put it, to let a hundred flowers wilt. Xinhua recounted the long list of...
Boat Trips & Tablets for Officials Inspecting Dam Relocation Project
Nine officials sent to assess a Three Gorges relocation project in one of China’s poorest counties ran through over 800,000 yuan (about $125,000) during their month-long inspection — four times the original budget....
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