Civil servants are the staff of party committees, governments and administrative departments at all levels. Every civil servant has some powers, big and small, so it is easy for civil servants to breed corruption when they take a second job. When civil servants engage in a second job, they will inevitably ignore their own jobs and weaken their professional quality, thus inhibiting the innovation of their work.

In order to ensure that civil servants can better perform their duties and do their jobs well, and at the same time prevent enterprises and institutions from using state power to engage in various for-profit activities, prevent civil servants from taking advantage of their positions to obtain illegal income, and safeguard the integrity of civil servants, civil servants are not allowed to engage in or participate in for-profit activities, and they are not allowed to hold concurrent positions in enterprises or other for-profit organizations.

According to the provisions of Article 42 of the Civil Service Law, if a civil servant takes a part-time job outside the office due to work needs, he shall be approved by the relevant authorities and shall not receive part-time remuneration. The term "part-time job outside the post" in these Provisions does not include part-time job in enterprises or other profit-making organizations, because according to these Provisions, such part-time job is absolutely prohibited and the relevant departments shall not approve it.