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Office regulations aim to curb lavish spending
By Lydia Chen |
January 21, 2009, Wednesday
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CHINA'S top economic body issued detailed construction standards to define the size of government workplaces yesterday.
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 those for county-level officials should be less than 20 square meters, according to a notice on the committee's Website.
Expenditures on government facilities should be in line with local economic development and decorations should be kept simple, the committee said.
Air-conditioning, ventilation systems and elevators installed in 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 a building under construction for a local intermediate court in Mianyang City in quake-hit Sichuan Province were revealed online.
Internet users said the building looked like the White House in the United States and claimed it was being built at a cost of 65 million yuan (US$9.5 million).
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 those for county-level officials should be less than 20 square meters, according to a notice on the committee's Website.
Expenditures on government facilities should be in line with local economic development and decorations should be kept simple, the committee said.
Air-conditioning, ventilation systems and elevators installed in 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 a building under construction for a local intermediate court in Mianyang City in quake-hit Sichuan Province were revealed online.
Internet users said the building looked like the White House in the United States and claimed it was being built at a cost of 65 million yuan (US$9.5 million).
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