The new rules apply to all 88 million party members and are created to codify more clearly what constitutes a violation.
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Several high ranking officials including senior party leaders have been sent to jail on corruption charges and for abuse of power.
The Communist Party has long had an ambivalent relationship with golf, which is a lucrative opportunity for local authorities and a favoured pastime of a few officials, but is also closely associated with wealth and Western elites. “The first modern golf course was opened in 1984 and it was designed by Arnold Palmer”. Clubs such as Wolong Lake and Nine Dragons host PGA Tour matches.
“We have began to take a look at the Asia Pacific area…”
“If people in China are forbidden to play golf, if that’s the case, then it (entry to the Chinese market) might be even later on our agenda”. No one at the USA Golf Association was instantly obtainable to remark, nor was an official with the PGA of America.
This is the latest in Xi’s efforts to hamper the game’s growth in China.
“Golf has been labelled with a very negative image”, Jacky Peng, founder of Niceon Sport and a manager of professional Chinese golfers, told Reuters.
Another golf shop owner, Miss Yang, said the regulations were stalling public interest. A Reuters report clarifies that Lin was said to have played 163 rounds of golf over the past two years, 12 of them during work hours, at a club that charged him suspiciously lower fees than its other customers.
Today, about less than 1 percent of the population in China plays golf.
“I assume all indications are that the federal government goes to determine a course and a coverage for golf course improvement”.
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Party members were already barred from “keeping paramours and conducting adultery” but the new rule on sexual activity is stricter, Xinhua said. The cost of adultery is steadily levelled at excessive-rating graft suspects as a approach of displaying they’re morally degenerate and deserve punishment. The news outlet cites Gao Bo of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to further explain the objective of the new regulations, writing, “the new rules required officials not only to be honest in politics but also to concentrate on cultivating their own character and running a harmonious family”.
