New row over Liaoning official

A county Party secretary in Liaoning province, who was forced to resign for sending police officers to Beijing in January to arrest a reporter for her report about him, has sparked a new uproar in the media.

Zhang Zhiguo returned to work on Monday as deputy chief of Shenyang-Tieling urban rail construction, but was removed the following day due to an outcry in the media, the Tieling government said yesterday on its website.

Tieling Television reported on Thursday that Zhang had been appointed to take charge of construction of an urban rail line between the provincial capital Shenyang and Tieling.