Article: 1st Ld-Writethru: China curbs overseas trips on public expense

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 ...

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