More than 100,000 "phantom employees" of provincial governments in China who were paid but did no work have been removed in Hebei, Sichuan, Henan and Jilin provinces.
This comes after a national campaign was launched last year requiring stricter measures to keep government teams clean and efficient, experts said.
In Hebei province, more than 55,000 officials in government units and staff members of public institutes were removed as part of the Mass Line Campaign that has targeted corruption and bureaucracy, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.
They were found to be getting paid, even though they no longer worked in the government and public institutes.
"We have taken a series of measures to expose such officials as a major way to make relations between the CPC (Communist Party of China) members and the public closer," Zhao Wenhai, deputy head of the province's finance bureau, told Xinhua. Full story...
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This comes after a national campaign was launched last year requiring stricter measures to keep government teams clean and efficient, experts said.
In Hebei province, more than 55,000 officials in government units and staff members of public institutes were removed as part of the Mass Line Campaign that has targeted corruption and bureaucracy, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.
They were found to be getting paid, even though they no longer worked in the government and public institutes.
"We have taken a series of measures to expose such officials as a major way to make relations between the CPC (Communist Party of China) members and the public closer," Zhao Wenhai, deputy head of the province's finance bureau, told Xinhua. Full story...
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