Teachers have meat side dishes, students have seasoned meals... Unruly school meals are shocking
May 22, 2025
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According to Chinese media such as Sina Finance, Sichuan Province recently?The Discipline Inspection Committee of Tsutong County, Xyang City, made an unexpected visit to a middle school to investigate the status of school meals.
As a result, the faculty and staff ate high-quality side dishes such as steamed pork and fresh potato dishes, but the students mixed rice with Chinese-style spicy sauce and ate green potatoes.
"It was a poor school meal beyond words."The Discipline Inspection Committee, which pointed out that ", conducted an in-depth investigation of all elementary and secondary schools (including kindergartens) in Tsutong County.
As a result, it detected 53 cases, including embezzlement of cafeteria funds, improper procurement bids, bribery of food material suppliers, and food safety violations, disciplinary action against 48 people and recovered about 5.48 million yuan (about 1.05 billion won).
In China, this 'cafeteria' problem is serious enough to detect tens of thousands of cases nationwide.
Last year, more than 38,000 irregularities were detected in elementary and middle schools nationwide, and 23,000 people were disciplined.
According to the case reported by the authorities, a meal manager charged a rebate of 1 yuan (about 190 won) per meal and received more than 230,000 yuan (about 44 million won) in bribes for several years. In addition, there were cases where a rebate of 0.2 yuan was received per bread.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
