Beijing punishes local officials for handling of deadly Henan floods

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BEIJING - Beijing has punished almost 100 officials and company managers for dereliction of duty around catastrophic floods that hit Henan province andMr Xu Liyi, secretary of the Communist Party Com

mittee in Henan's provincial capital of Zhengzhou, was removed from his post and Zhengzhou vice-mayor Wu Fumin was also dismissed.

The government has called the Henan floods the worst since China began keeping meteorological records. "There was a problem of late reporting and concealment in the reporting of disaster information, and negligence... from lower-level party committees, governments and relevant departments," the report said.

Henan, a populous province double the size of Austria whose capital Zhengzhou is a city of 12 million people, also incurred direct economic losses amounting to 120.6 billion yuan , Xinhua reported.

 

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