Local Party committees and government organizations in various provinces across China have been launching conferences to study instructions from central authorities on the lesson taught by Bo Xilai's sever violations of Party discipline.

Details of Bo's case, the reasons for his crimes and warnings taken from them have been discussed based on an official document issued by central authorities, according to the announcements posted on the websites of these organizations. 

Bo, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and former member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, was sentenced to life imprisonment in September for accepting bribes totaling more than 20.44 million yuan ($3.3 million), embezzling 5 million yuan and abuse of power.

Conferences were launched by government organs at different levels, such as the provincial Party committee of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and the weather bureau in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The content of the document has not been made public. Peng Huayou, a staff member from the Party committee of Xiushan High School in Chongqing, confirmed with the Global Times on Monday that he had attended a similar meeting Friday but refused to reveal further details.

"It's a convention that disgraced high-ranking officials are taken as negative examples for other civil servants," Chen Jiaxi, an associate professor at Contemporary Chinese Politics Research Institute of Shenzhen University, told the Global Times.

He noted that the meaning of the lesson for grass-roots staff and higher level ones is different.

"It instructs Party members or officials at higher levels to maintain the authority of central authorities. It delivers the message that strengthening the political discipline within the Party should still be a top priority under the centralized leadership," Chen said.

For grass-roots Party members, the conferences speak more from a perspective of anti-corruption, Chen said.