Chinese officials are already reeling from the indignity of losing their official cars and chauffeurs as part of Beijing’s anti-corruption campaign. Now they face the added humiliation of finding themselves bottom of the class at driving school.

President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, which began in 2012, has stripped government officials of many of the finer things in life, from luxury saloons and government drivers who are always on call, to all-expenses-paid government trips that involve more eating, drinking and sightseeing than policy making.

That may have whittled waistlines along with exense accounts, but it is also creating a cadre of grumpy pupils. State news agency Xinhua says some government officials find it so hard to take orders that they repeatedly fail China’s notoriously tough driving tests.