There Is A Grey Area Between The New Regulations And The Reception.

< p > January 6th, < < a href= > //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp > > the central government and state agencies travel expenses management > < /a > (hereinafter referred to as the "travel expenses method") announced that from January 1st this year, civil servants will carry out domestic travel in the implementation of new standards for inter city pportation, accommodation, food subsidies and pportation costs.

Only a month ago, the regulations on the administration of domestic official reception of Party and government organs (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations on official reception") were issued, which required party and government organs at all levels to receive official duties from local public servants when they came to attend meetings, conduct investigations and research activities.

The two set of regulations regulate the behavior of two main actors in domestic official travel activities.

However, experts pointed out that there are still grey areas between the two sets of regulations, and there are some difficulties in implementation.

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< p > < < a href= > //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp > > official reception > < /a > regulations was issued by the general office of the CPC Central Committee and the general office of the State Council, and the provisions for reception accommodation, meals, official vehicles and so on were issued.

It is clear that accommodation is mainly standard rooms, and provincial and ministerial level cadres can arrange ordinary apartments.

At dinner, the recipient should have meals according to the prescribed standard.

According to the "Regulations on official reception", reception units can arrange work meals once, but make requests for dishes that accompany meals and dishes for working meals. It is clear that "no high grade dishes such as shark fin, bird's nest, and dishes made from wild animals should be provided."

On the official vehicle, the reception unit should arrange centralized driving to control the accompanying vehicles.

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< p > the "travel expenses method" which was promulgated later was issued by the Ministry of finance, which is consistent with the "Regulations on official reception" on several standards, and provides for the inter city traffic expenses, < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > accommodation fee < /a >, food allowance and municipal pportation expenses arising from the domestic business trip of civil servants.

Compared with the regulations issued by the Ministry of Finance in 2006, it is clear that the general suite of the ministerial level and the equivalent duty personnel can be taken first class, while the bureau level and the following staff live in single rooms or standard rooms, so they can only take economy class.

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< p > except for these two sets of regulations, in November 25th last year, the central government promulgated the regulations on party and government organs to fight against waste in a cost-effective manner (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations on strict regulation"), stipulates that domestic travel personnel should strictly take the pportation, accommodation and meals strictly according to the regulations, and the cost will be borne by the units in charge.

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< p > the "official reception regulations" allows the arrangement of travel personnel to arrange a working meal.

Some experts pointed out that if the domestic travel personnel were received and the relevant bills were taken back for reimbursement, the same expense would be reimbursed for two times.

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