Necessary change

Government officials are spending more time with their families thanks to the crackdown on graft, latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.

Officials spent an average of 30 minutes more at home every day in 2013 compared with a year ago, said Zhang Zhongliang, director of the bureau's finance department.

He attributed the change to the "eight-point" frugality rules put forward in late 2012, which require officials to clean up undesirable work styles including extravagance and hedonism. Lavish banquets using public funds have been banned since.