Officials in Taiyuan, northern China's Shanxi Province, will soon need to declare
expense including the cost of their children's studying abroad, as
part of a campaign to build a clean government and fighting
corruption, Xinhua reports.
According to the regulation, all government officials are
required to declare such major personal matters as the building or
purchasing of housing, sending their children to study abroad and
paying for their wedding ceremonies.
Such expenses will be placed under the scrutiny of the
public.
The regulation is also intended to prevent the families of civil
servants from entering businesses, and to prevent
safety-supervision corruption.?
(CRI February 14, 2007)