{"id":73420,"date":"2025-08-13T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/13\/china-civil-servant-public-employee-austerity-drive-economy"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:40:35","slug":"chinas-crackdown-on-lavish-civil-servant-perks-will-harm-the-economy-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73420","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s crackdown on lavish civil servant perks will \u2018harm\u2019 the economy, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated regulations ban the country\u2019s 40 million civil servants from lavish banquets, and restrict them from overseas travel for \u2018personal leisure\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Adjacent to a municipal government building in Beijing, a normally bustling restaurant is now eerily quiet, at lunchtime most of its seats are empty.<\/p>\n<p>The recent crackdown on civil servants frequenting restaurants \u2013 part of a government austerity drive intended to crack down on corruption \u2013 has likely affected business and caused liquor sales to plummet, admits one waitress who works in the opulent establishment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/13\/china-civil-servant-public-employee-austerity-drive-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated regulations ban the country\u2019s 40 million civil servants from lavish banquets, and restrict them from overseas travel for \u2018personal leisure\u2019Adjacent to a municipal government building in Beijing, a normally bustling restaurant is now eerily quie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73421,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420\/revisions\/73421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}