Can expert leading cadres provide paid technical consultation for enterprises?

No, because the central authorities explicitly prohibit leading cadres from providing paid services other than official duties, because some party and government cadres, although not directly running enterprises through operation, take advantage of their authority and work to engage in paid service activities and make profits through intermediation.

This will inevitably interfere with the normal work of the party and government organs, disrupt the market economic order, affect party and government cadres to handle affairs impartially and enforce the law impartially, and induce abuse of power for personal gain and power trading. Therefore, we must investigate the party discipline responsibility.