
China’s ongoing austerity campaign has been taken too far at some local levels, People’s Daily has warned, a month after Beijing launched its latest belt-tightening push.In a commentary published on its website on Tuesday night, the party mouthpiece said that while curbing corruption and extravagance was necessary for the austerity campaign, it should not come at the expense of a citizen’s daily life or local economies.“When implementing, some localities have ‘layered on restrictions’ –...