Chinese civil servants face dine-out restrictions amid austerity drive

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Some Chinese government employees are now forbidden to eat in more than three larger groups, following a series of widespread alcohol deaths as part of a widespread simplicity move to prevent extravagance in the public sector after a series of alcohol -related deaths in public banquets.

The new rules imposed in May target members of the Communist Party, banning royal banquets, unnecessary infrastructure projects, and luxurious facilities in work settings.

Analysts have interpreted this renewed emphasis on the effectiveness of President Xi Jinping as a signal of anti -corruption and party discipline, which shows that past measures have been reduced.

Alfred Woo, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore, has highlighted the severity of the culture of drinking alcohol among government employees, but criticizes the government’s “one in one size” approach.

“Although Beijing wants to increase consumption, the clean government – which is the main priority of XI – is the price.”

These measures have been associated with excessive alcohol in the banquet after three massive cadre deaths since April. Dozens of officials have been convicted in connection with the deaths in Hunan, Anuui and Henan provinces, where they tried to hide the details of the banquets and privately compensate the families of the deceased.

Rare emission of complaints

But this week, the new guidelines of food through some areas are moving forward, and the cadres are called careful of social gatherings, not treating owners or not treating undernings, and avoiding “forming small groups”, and a Communist Post in the province.

“When you eat with ordinary colleagues, the groups of the under -3 are usually fine,” read the post, which is titled ‘Does it violate food rules with peers after work’?

“Avoid eating in advanced places, do not meet the same people permanently, do not take the opportunity to make ‘small groups’.”

This guidance gave rise to an extraordinary spread of complaints on social media by one of China’s most solid control groups, which quickly feel that their personal life is excessive and subject to discretionary restrictions.

“The lonely food is headonism, the couple is engaged in the relationship of unpleasant male women, eating all three small little little little little small little little little little little little little little little littleer small small small small small small small small small small small small small little to a small small small small small small small small small little.

“Three of us went out for a hotspot at lunch and each of us was sentenced to a warning,” a civil servant wrote in Shandong Province.

“This is excessive correction, the essence of guidelines is not wasting public money on the banquet banquets, but it is more strictly enforced at all levels of bureaucracy,” said a user in the Guangsi region, written by a user in the Guangzhou region.

A government employee in Sichuan Province said that his colleagues have always been ordered to go straight home after work. Another cadre of Anhui province said that his office had recently begun implementing daily breathing tests, while one in Shansei province said he had been asked to get rid of his office plants.

To avoid another government employee in Gansu Province, it was asked to study the list of 20 types of food gatherings, while an enterprise worker in Wuhan was ordered not to eat lunch with other departments or owners.

He said, “Our leader stressed that if I invite someone in my canteen, spend a little and pay the bill, it is not allowed”, he said.

Some of his cadres have even reported cold calls by local discipline inspectors that they ask memory to remember the rules or inform their supervisors.

However, three government employees in Beijing, Rural Guangdong Province and Chongqing told Reuters that their workplace was not excessive implemented.

Others told Reuters that they welcomed the rules, because they hated to put pressure on drinking alcohol with their owners.

The rules fulfill the “eight -point regulations”, a code of conduct that aims to prevent corruption in China’s vast bureaucracy, which XI launched shortly after taking office in 2012.

The number of cadres across the country has been punished nationwide for violating more than 16,500 balloons in February, ranging from 9,292 to April, the latest month for which statistics are available.