What does the Eight-Point Regulation cover?

The Eight-Point Regulation is a set of rules adopted by the Communist Party of China leadership in December 2012, designed to address four deep-rooted, chronic bureaucratic issues, including official privileges and extravagant banquets. Its eight points are as follows:

. Doing better research and analysis and truly understanding actual conditions when doing grassroots studies.

. Streamlining meetings and improving the way they are conducted.

. Making documents and briefing papers more concise and improving writing styles.

. Standardizing procedures for working visits abroad.

. Improving security work and continuing to observe the principle of doing what improves relations with the people.

. Improving news reports.

. Having strict rules on the publication of articles.

. Promoting frugality and the strict observance of rules on incorruptibility in government.

In March, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee issued a notice calling for a Party-wide campaign to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation.