Nothing festive about expensive moon cakes

AS THE MID-AUTUMN Festival approaches, sales of highly priced moon cakes are appearing in online stores instead of traditional shops and markets. Comments:

Ridiculously expensive moon cakes facilitate corruption. The moon cake itself is not to blame. But its purchase and use as a gift should be separate from official expenses to prevent the traditional festival from becoming "polluted". What really matters is who buys and consumes such gifts and with whose money. It should be seen as corruption if officials are the buyers or recipients of such highly priced gifts. Multiple measures such as improving institutional management and upgrading the anti-corruption mechanism should be taken to end the practice of gift giving at the public's expense.

Economic Daily, Aug 27