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NDRC cracks down on size of government buildings
By Lydia Chen |
January 20, 2009, Tuesday
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OFFICIALS in China now have one more rule to follow as the country's top economic body issued detailed construction standards to define the size of government workplaces.
The standard, issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, covers all officials across the country above county level. It called on them to be "thrifty" with government facility construction projects.
Offices for ministry-level officials should be less than 54 square meters while that for a county-level official should be within 20 square meters, according to a notice on the committee's Website today.
Expenditures on government facilities should be in line with local economic development and decorations simple, the committee said.
Air-conditioning, ventilation systems and elevators installed in these offices should all be made domestically and meet the country's energy-friendly policies, it added.
Construction of lavish official buildings, including departmental hotels and entertainment centers, has become a rampant problem in recent years. Such buildings have triggered public discontent and accusations that officials are abusing public funds to meet their personal desires for luxury.
In the latest case, pictures of an under construction building for a local intermediate court in Mianyang City in quake-hit Sichuan Province were revealed on some BBS communities. Online users said the facility looks like the White House in the United States and built at a cost of 65 million yuan (US$9.5 million).
The government of Tongbai, a county listed below the poverty level in Henan Province, spent more than 100 million yuan on its office building in October, according to a report by Rednet.cn, an official news portal in Hunan Province.
The standard, issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, covers all officials across the country above county level. It called on them to be "thrifty" with government facility construction projects.
Offices for ministry-level officials should be less than 54 square meters while that for a county-level official should be within 20 square meters, according to a notice on the committee's Website today.
Expenditures on government facilities should be in line with local economic development and decorations simple, the committee said.
Air-conditioning, ventilation systems and elevators installed in these offices should all be made domestically and meet the country's energy-friendly policies, it added.
Construction of lavish official buildings, including departmental hotels and entertainment centers, has become a rampant problem in recent years. Such buildings have triggered public discontent and accusations that officials are abusing public funds to meet their personal desires for luxury.
In the latest case, pictures of an under construction building for a local intermediate court in Mianyang City in quake-hit Sichuan Province were revealed on some BBS communities. Online users said the facility looks like the White House in the United States and built at a cost of 65 million yuan (US$9.5 million).
The government of Tongbai, a county listed below the poverty level in Henan Province, spent more than 100 million yuan on its office building in October, according to a report by Rednet.cn, an official news portal in Hunan Province.
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