Across China: Guangxi

Quake hoaxer gets 4 years

A man who hacked the website of the Guangxi earthquake administration and left a notice saying a 9-magnitude quake was about to happen, was jailed for four years yesterday, the China News Service reported.

Chen Zhifeng, a clerk at a trading company in Jiangsu province, was found guilty at the Qingxiu district court in Nanning in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.