The rules that regulate retired government officials are likely to be tightened amid the country's enhanced anti-graft campaign, analysts said.
The Communist Party of China put forward the frugality rules in December 2012, a month after its new leadership was elected. The rules require officials to get close to the people by cleaning up undesirable work styles including extravagance and hedonism.
Salary increases for public servants in China should be kept within reasonable limits.
Until civil servants' illegal income streams are eliminated, civil servants' cries about their meager salary will beget little sympathy from people, says an article in 21st Century Business Herald.
A senior official from Guangzhou, Guangdong province, has denied saying that a large number of civil servants are resigning to go into business.
The salary information of civil servants in Lengshuijiang, Hunan province, which was revealed on the Internet on Monday.
Such changes should be used to strengthen supervision over officials' exercise of power and eradicate formalism, bureaucratism and hedonism.
Civil servants in Jiangsu province will have to answer a series of sensitive questions in a bid to root out those that might fall prey to corruption.
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.
The Chinese media have been agog with reports on the possibility of some civil servants quitting their jobs and going into business. They will do so, the reports say, because the central government's eight-point code to reduce bureaucratism and maintain close ties with the people has, to some extent, truncated their welfare and perks.
The regulation of "naked officials" — civil servants whose family members have migrated overseas — has been tightened in the wake of the Party's efforts to fight graft.
Civil servants should firstly be model citizens abiding by the laws. If government officials can't serve as good role models in law and social morality, it is impossible for the common people to behave themselves, says an article of the China Business News.
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