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BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhua) -- China's top discipline watchdog has exposed seven cases involving officials who have violated the eight-point rules on frugality.

The officials were found to have been involved in cases of accepting bribes, and use of public funds for banquets and traveling, among other misdeeds, according to a statement released by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on Wednesday.

The individuals include a former senior official with the Changsha Municipal CPC Committee in central China's Hunan Province, and the chairman of the board of China SDIC International Trade Co. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the State Development and Investment Corp., and their punishments ranged from intra-Party warning to dismissal, it said.

The CCDI also warned officials against misbehavior during the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival holiday.

The CCDI established a monthly reporting system in August 2013 to monitor nationwide implementation of the "eight-point rules," which were introduced on Dec. 4, 2012 by the CPC to reduce bureaucracy, extravagance, and undesirable work habits.