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Official builds luxurious mausoleum
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A SENIOR official is under investigation for building a luxurious mausoleum for himself and his deceased parents in China's southwestern Sichuan Province, the Guangzhou Daily reported on Monday.
The Communist Party's disciplinary committee in Beijing is investigating the report that Feng Wenchao, 58, a deputy managing director of Chongqing tobacco company, built the mausoleum in Qianjiang County.
The tomb was described by local residents as the "best quality" of its kind, the daily said.
The tree-lined mausoleum, which took three years to complete, already holds the remains of his parents, and has vacant graves reserved for him and his wife, the report said.
The report said some 60,000 yuan (US$7,320) was spent just on paying 16 stone masons hired to decorate the mausoleum.
Feng was also the commissioner and party's secretary of the tobacco franchise bureau in Qianjiang.
The Chinese Government has for decades tried to encourage people to cremate their loved ones, in a bid to ease the pressure on valuable land. But in rural and rich areas many people prefer to stick to traditional burials, with lavish tombs to honour the dead.(SD-Agencies)
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