Everybody loves a good termination

It was not a festival yesterday but people in Daoxian county of Hunan province were in a carnival mood.

They carried banners, performed dragon dances and set off fireworks - all to celebrate the fall of the county's top official.

Yi Guangming, 53, Party secretary of the county with a population of 720,000 since 1994, was removed from his post for "seriously violating Party discipline".