Party calls for end to high-cost funerals for officials

Members of the Communist Party of China and government officials have to have simple funerals without any "feudal" or "superstitious" elements, the government said on Thursday, as the Party tries to curb extravagance.

President Xi Jinping ordered the crackdown late last year when he became Party chief, seeking to assuage public anger at waste and extravagance.

Having already taken aim at everything from banquets to bribes, the Party has now turned its attention to funerals.