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We should not merely focus on how many phantom employees were found and how much money was recovered. The government agencies and people responsible for paying those freeloaders should be named and shamed."

A netizen named Xiao Yang talked about phantom employees - former civil servants who are still on the payroll - after Beijing News reported on Thursday that 100,000 of them had been exposed in Hebei, Henan, Sichuan and Jilin provinces.