Official sacked for failing to clean up south Chinese town
8/2/2007 16:34
A town official in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has
been sacked for failing to clean up Baisha town as ordered, becoming the latest
official to fall victim to the region's clean-up campaign.
The official
surnamed Liao, formerly deputy secretary of the Baisha township committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) in Hepu county, was told to take the rap for the
dirty, untidy streets.
Senior Hepu county officials decided to dismiss Liao
after an inspection visit to Baishan on Sunday, which found dirty streets full
of litter, chaotically-organized shops and stalls and a number of
illegally-built structures.
Liao will also be removed from the administrative
position of township government head, county officials said.
Two district
heads in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, as well as officials from other cities
have already been sacked for the same reason.
Guangxi launched last September
a region-wide "rural and urban clean-up project".
Liu Qibao, secretary of the
CPC Guangxi regional committee, said that the project must be implemented in a
way that satisfies the people and improves the region's image.
Xinhua
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