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Article: 1st Ld-Writethru: China curbs overseas trips on public expense
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 5, 2009
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1st Ld-Writethru: China curbs overseas trips on public expense
BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China banned nearly 4,000 Party and
government officials from joining more than 550 overseas group trips
on public expense in the six months to the end of November, a top
discipline official said here Monday.
Ma Wen, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection of the Communist Party of China, said 830,000 official
passport-holders went abroad in that period, down 18.9 percent year
on year.
"Since the campaign was launched in last April, progress has been
achieved in curbing overseas trips on public expense in China," Ma
said at a video conference in Beijing.
Ma said the ...