Luxury golf club 'ignored govt ban'

A luxury golf club in suburban Shanghai that charges membership fees as high as 1.46 million yuan ($233,400) was still running on Monday, though it had been exposed as being illegally built and operated for four years.

In a report published on Sunday, Xinhua News Agency accused Dongzhuang Beach Golf Club in the city's Pudong New Area of cheating authorities by calling itself a "sports park" and ignoring a ban by the central government in 2004 from constructing new golf courses.

The report also says that government officials and State-owned company executives are among its members.