Building ban begins to bite

The central government is cracking down on wasteful construction projects and ostentatious office complexes approved by a number of local authorities, as An Baijie reports.

A half-built office complex in East China's Anhui province has become a hot potato for a local government in the two years since a clean-governance campaign was launched.

Construction of the 13-building complex was started by the government of Xiaoxian county in 2009, only to be halted in 2012 after Wu Baoliang, the county's then-Party chief, was investigated on allegations of corruption.