Chinese counties took 2 billion yuan from rural school meal subsidies to ‘settle local debt’
More than 100 counties were involved in the wrongdoing, the report found. In 66 counties, nearly 2 billion yuan in all were directly misappropriated to settle government debts and basic social insurance. In 41 others, a total of 270 million yuan was siphoned off by lowering meal standards or fabricating purchases across 1,533 schools, the … Read more
