Six officials in central China’s Hubei province have been punished for dozing off in a meeting on how to motivate lazy bureaucrats, state media and the local government said. Pictures of the sleeping officials have received widespread coverage in Chinese media over the past two days, amid Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sweeping crackdown on corruption, extravagance and dereliction of duty. The Communist Party discipline bureau in Hubei’s Xiangyang city on Thursday named the mid-level officials and said they had to write self-criticisms and make public apologies. The Global Times said on Friday the officials had, ironically, been attending a meeting on how to motivate lazy and sluggish officials. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the founding and ruling political party of the People’s Republic of China. The CPC is the sole governing party of China, although it coexists alongside eight other legal parties that comprise the United Front; these parties, however, hold no real power or independence from the CPC. It was founded in 1921, chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. The party grew quickly, and by 1949 the CPC had driven the nationalist Kuomintang government from mainland China after the Chinese Civil War, thus leading to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. The CPC is currently the world’s second largest political party with a membership of 88.76 million as of 2016.