Ridding the Party of hedonism and excess has given us a fairly sensible
ban on lavish, expensive banquets held for minor guests of the state, and even veteran China watchers are
feeling the pinch. The nation's prostitution and
liquor industries have been decimated. Rumblings from the lower echelons of the CCP hierarchy tell of daily Party directives detailing how multimillionaire politicians can act like a poor person are dispatched from Zhongnanhai (e
r, can we check this? Ed.).
Some
of the items on the Do Not Buy List are a little odd to say the least, and one wonders how the princelings are really going to cope in this new age of austerity. At best they provide an insight into actually how much officials got away with - one can only wonder what didn't make the list.
On the bright side, at least there's no danger of
car pooling your teenage daughter with Lei Zhengfu.
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