Southwest China's Guizhou province punished 4,660 officials for disciplinary violations in 2013, about 12 percent more than the previous year, the provincial discipline inspection commission said on Monday.
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The discipline watchdog investigated 4,200 cases, a year-on-year increase of 10 percent, a commission spokesman said. Meanwhile, 296 officials, 151 percent more than the previous year, were delivered to justice authorities for further investigation. In six rounds of inspections of the "eight-point" rules, 416 officials were punished for violations.
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The province is going to tighten its anti-corruption efforts and further enforce the "eight-point" rules in 2014, the commission spokesman added. Under the "eight-point" rules, put forward by the Communist Party of China Central Committee in December 2012, government officials must clean up undesirable work practices such as formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance.