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Party makes vanity projects a disciplinary offense

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Wasteful spending by local officials will no longer go unpunished. On June 15, the Party's internal discipline watchdog (CCDI) for the first time made public five cases of cadres chasing flashy, promotion-friendly “achievements” rather than real, sustainable results.

The CCDI also disclosed a previ...