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As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, the disciplinary authority has issued a stern warning against corruption and extravagance during the holiday.
While lauding the Communist Party of China's fight against undesirable work styles, an official from the Party Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said "the root is still there even though the tree has fallen".
The commission has called on supervisory organs to be extra vigilant before and during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, both falling around October 1st.
It is customary to hold banquets and give gifts, usually sweet-or savory-filled pastries known as moon-cakes, during the Mid-Autumn festival, which this year falls on September 27th. The commission is concerned that the festivals will be used as a cover for subtle bribery.
The commission has unveiled a form on its website, inviting the public to report excessive spending by officials during the forthcoming festivities.
Violators will be named and shamed in a weekly report on the website from Sept. 16.
The Party issued an "eight-point" anti-bureaucracy and extravagance guideline in 2012, and later initiated a campaign to clean up four undesirable work styles, namely formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance, among Party members.

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A government white paper says Tibet has done much and made remarkable achievements towards respecting, protecting, inheriting, and carrying forward Tibet's excellent traditional culture.
The white paper, entitled "Successful Practice of Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Tibet" says Tibetan language learning is efficiently protected; and bilingual teaching in Tibetan and Mandarin is carried out in all schools to encourage the inheritance of the Tibetan language in the course of learning.
The special administrative region has 6,000 teachers of Tibetan language in primary and middle schools, and 30,000 bilingual teachers in kindergartens, primary and middle schools.
Over the decades, Tibet has organized large-scale and systematic campaigns to restore its traditional culture, including music and the arts.
Tibetan opera and the oral epic the "King Gesar" were named as UNESCO intangible heritage items, and 90 others are under state level protection.