Former NBA basketball player Yao Ming practices before the World Celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament in Haikou, South China's Hainan province, Oct 18, 2012. [Photo/CFP]
Bloomberg: Sex, gluttony and golf: Chinese Communist Party's deadly sins
China's Communist Party has banned its members from "extravagant eating and drinking", engaging in "improper sexual relationships with others" and playing golf, state media reported Thursday.
The ruling party's Political Bureau adopted new rules on clean governance and discipline earlier this month, the official Xinhua news agency said, describing the measures as "a moral ethical code that members must abide by".
Party members were already barred from "keeping paramours and conducting adultery" but the new rule on sexual activity was stricter, Xinhua said.
Playing golf and excessive eating and drinking were explicitly listed as violations of discipline for the first time, it added.
The regulations -- which apply to everyone in the 88-million-strong Communist Party -- also forbid forming cliques within the party and nepotism.
WNU editor: Being someone who has lived in worked in China since the 1980s .... I have a certain perspective that most people do not have. This ban on "extravagant eating and drinking", engaging in "improper sexual relationships with others" and playing golf .... aside from the golf that was non-existent in the 1980s .... this behaviour has always been around, and putting out a memo to ban it is not going to work. Meanwhile .... Chinese President Xi and his wife enjoy a state banquet in England.