China's Guangdong to ban officials with overseas kin from top jobs


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Oct 2014

BEIJING (Reuters) - The wealthy southern Chinese province of Guangdong plans to ban officials from senior or sensitive government positions if they have spouses or children living overseas as part of a corruption crackdown, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday.

This year Guangdong announced that more than 850 government workers with family overseas, who are known as "naked officials", had been forced out of their jobs.

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