Banquet ban alone won't stop dirty deals

The disciplinary watchdog of Northeast China's Jilin province recently issued a notice forbidding State-funded staff to attend inappropriate official banquets, which it clearly defined in detailed articles. Comments:

Who is naive enough to believe that corruption is caused by banquets? Banquets are only a platform for officials to get to know each other, and all their dirty deals are done in secret places elsewhere. Even if banquets are banned, officials that have unsupervised power in hand will still communicate with each other in pursuit of illicit gains. What is needed is shutting power in cage and preventing the abuse of power, so that officials won't have any chances of corruption. In the long run, banquets for officials will naturally perish because dirty deals will no longer be possible.

scol.com.cn, May 18