GUANGDONG Province plans to ban officials from senior or sensitive government positions if they have spouses or children living overseas as part of a corruption crackdown, China Daily said Thursday.

    This year Guangdong announced that more than 850 government officials with family overseas, who are known as “naked officials,” had been removed from their jobs.

    “Naked officials” are regarded as flight risks whose ability to escape overseas to join family members could make them more inclined to engage in acts of corruption.

    President Xi Jinping last year launched a crackdown on corruption over concern about public resentment toward the Party.

    Guangdong, which borders Hong Kong, has traditionally seen high levels of emigration with communities of people with roots there scattered throughout the world, and so has been a focus of the push against “naked officials.”

    The province’s new rules will ban such officials from “playing leading roles in government departments, government institutions, people’s organizations and State-owned enterprises,” China Daily reported.

    They will not be allowed to work in important or sensitive jobs, including those related to security, finance, financial regulator, human resources or accounting, it added.

    “Anyone considered for promotion to a leading post will have to publicly disclose their marriage, real estate, personal investments and debt, self-discipline records and the jobs of their children and spouses,” the newspaper said.

    The rules are included in the province’s graft-fighting plan, an outline of which was released this week. The paper did not say when the measures will be implemented. (SD-Agencies)