The Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee, the body that oversees staffing of official positions, called for the new accounting earlier this month, according to Caixin, a Chinese financial news magazine.
In recent weeks, several local governments have posted notices describing the order. The tabulation process calls for a listing of any civil servant who died an “unnatural death” from December 2012 to December 2014. The notices define “unnatural death” as suicide, homicide, industrial accident, natural disaster or execution. While the reasoning behind the study has not been publicly stated, the focus appears to be on suicides. Six of the order’s 12 points involve what details should be gathered for suicide cases, including time, place, method and possible reason.
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The city government fears a potential lapse in money being paid into social welfare funds as the high costs of rearing and educating a child may be deterring many from having a second child.Read more…
Postings by the human rights lawyer on Sina Weibo have spread on the Internet, providing insight into accusations that he provoked disturbances, incited ethnic hatred and incited the splitting of the country.Read more…
