Banquet ban bites

New leader Xi Jinping’s December clampdown on exuberant entertaining by the mainland’s seven million government officials seems to have worked. Shanghai’s gourmet restaurants and posh hotels have seen business slump 20 per cent since officials were limited to four courses plus soup, with no more claret and expensive spirits.

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