Secret karaoke bar uncovered in Communist Party school Pink and gold Christmas tinsel dangled from a fake marble bar, which allegedly served drinks to three "private rooms" with capacity for more than ten karaoke enthusiasts. Liuba county propaganda officials insisted the school's focus was on Deng Xiaoping not Dancing Queen, and claimed a vacant portion of the compound had been rented out in May 2012 to raise funds. The KTV area was entirely separate from the teaching and office areas and karaoke sessions were only allowed to start after 8pm, officials told the People's Daily. Still, suspicious-minded bloggers reacted with disgust to the suggestion that their leaders might have been feeling the beat from the tambourine when they should have been swotting up on Marx or Mao Tse-tung Thought. "Wow, a KTV inside a party school," sniggered one user of the Weibo microblog. Why not open a foot massage place [too]? "Officials can play while they study," wrote another. How convenient! Shaanxi's underground KTV sessions are unlikely to cause much satisfaction in Beijing, where president Xi Jinping has been urging officials to make a brand new start of it by turning their backs on alcohol, haute cuisine and luxury overseas junkets. In August a state-run newspaper called for a civil servants to be banned from nightclubs after a group of Shanghai judges were caught carousing with prostitutes and splashing out on expensive delicacies including giant salamander. "To be frank, improving the moral standards of Chinese officials in a short time under the current situation is a difficult task," the Global Times newspaper lamented.