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China curbs overseas trips on public expense

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-05 19:15

BEIJING - China banned nearly 4,000 people from attending 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 the same period, down 18.9 percent over the figure in the previous year.