Chinese officials indulging in heavy drinking

Jin Guoqing,a senior official in the Wuhan province,died following a state dinner last week. The 47-year-old official had been entertaining official guests when he felt unconscious and died in hospital after being rushed there.

Last week,another senior official Lu Yanpeng,a district Communist party chief of Zhanjiang in Guangdong province went into comma after a heavy official drinking session.

The two incidents involving senior officials are not stray cases. As another senior official Guo Shizhong from Hunan province died of brain hemorrhage in February at a Karaoke bar.

Over drinking is now being frowned upon by the Communist party top brass who have noted that this leads to officials over indulging in alcohol,China Daily reported on Monday.

Shizhong in an irony was decorated as an excellent party member and posthumously handed a merit award for dying with honour,the paper said.