China banned nearly 4,000 people from attending more than 550 overseas group trips on public expense in the six months to the end of November, a top disciplineofficial said here Monday.
Ma Wen, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, said 830,000 official passport-holders went abroad in the same period, down 18.9 percent over the figure in the previous year.
Source: Xinhua
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