Officials accounted for half of 800 guests to billionaire son’s luxurious wedding

According to “Xiandai Kuaibao (Modern Express)”, a subsidiary of People’s Daily in Nanjing, China, Mr Chen, a billionaire who has been doing business in Wuxi City for over two decades, gave a wedding banquet for his son at the cost of RMB300 per head the day before yesterday. Among the more than 800 guests, there were more than 400 government officials. Some of the officials came to the banquet by official cars with license numbers beginning with “9”.

As for why half the guests invited were officials, the billionaire gave the explanation that he had made quite a few friends when he did business in Wuxi. He just wanted to ask them to come to be happy along with him when he son was married and had not given it too much thought.

The Wuxi City Disciplinary Inspection Commission said that invitation to a wedding banquet is in fact…