A county in China’s southern Guizhou province has come up with a unique way of punishing lazy and insubordinate officials: military-style “boot camps.”
Roughly 1,700 officials from Qianxi county have been sent to the camps, with less-serious offenders tasked with attending “improvement classes,” BBC reported Friday.
“I think the retraining is needed to change the mentality by officials that they can still get their paychecks without actually working,” Nie Qingchan, who went through the boot camp, told China Central Television, BBC reported.
Critics of the disciplinary measure say a better option would be to just get rid of lackluster employees.
“The best remedy is simply to fire them,” said Sheng Pingwang Datou on China’s microblogging website Weibo, BBC reported.
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