Experts have attributed a drop in the number of eligible applicants for the national civil service exam to China's ongoing anti-corruption campaign.
A senior official from the Guangzhou Party Commission of Discipline Inspection has promised to expand investigations and punishment of officials who accept bribes or bribe their leadership during the coming mid-autumn festival.
Despite price cuts, sales of Shark fins in Guangzhou have dropped by 80 percent in the past two months following the launch of the anti-corruption campaign.
A micro blog run by the prison management bureau on Sina Weibo, Twitter's Chinese counterpart, has been in the public spotlight for its posts of confessions from former government officials who are now inmates.
China is warning its officials to keep away from luxury mooncakes, even though the round pastry-featured Mid-Autumn Festival is still one and a half months away.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has banned officials from high-end private clubs, part of its ongoing campaign against official extravagance.
Government's frugality campaign to curb excess is striking exorbitantly priced clubs. Golf associations are now swinging toward the middle class.
Sales of expensive baijiu, China's native alcohol, have been significantly affected as the campaign goes on to cut officials' lavish spending.
Chen Qi (not his real name) has been unemployed for some months after the local authority cut spending last year in line with a national austerity drive.
Zheng Changjian, head of Guixi village, Pingnan county, recently welcomed visiting officials but apologized to them as he saw them off, as he was unable to offer them dinner.
Dadong district in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, has released the province's first behavior norm for civil servants, which prohibits extramarital affairs, Huashang Morning Post reported on Monday.
Activity in China's service sector expanded at its slowest pace in two-and-a-half years in January, suggesting weaker demand during the first month of 2014, a private survey showed on Friday.
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