It's year-end. All restaurants have become extremely busy, with every available parking space around them occupied. Toasting each other at the huge round tables in specially reserved rooms are government officials and company managers with blank checks prepared to "entertain for business purposes".
The practice, known as "feasting on public money", is common all year round but banquets abound especially at year-end because this is the time for public relations.
You have to invite officials from organizations at the higher level to a meal, as they may make it easier next year for your department to get the annual fund allocation according to the size you hoped for. You also need to invite people from other departments at your level or those that have frequent business relations with your office or company, because mutual support is essential.
And even within your own work units, leading cadres need to meet for a year-end conference, at which a "get-together meal" is an essential part, because it will help create a harmonious atmosphere within the unit.
Nevertheless, whatever the excuse, it is the expenditure of public money for a feast for a small number of people, who mostly hold leading positions. The public resents the practice, though they have become accustomed to seeing it.
When the media revealed that hundreds of billions of yuan was spent each year on "feasting" everybody (many of whom were the banquet-goers themselves) expressed shock and indignation at the squandering of public money. Most, however, could do nothing but shake their heads and say "meibanfa" (nothing can be done). And they continue to attend these banquets, either happily or reluctantly.
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