Top-heavy local govt slammed

Changes should be made to the Government Organization Act so the roles of government officials are better regulated, experts said yesterday after it emerged that the small city of Dexing, Jiangxi province, had a staggering 10 vice-mayors.

The 10 vice-mayors were on the payroll of the county-level city despite the fact that it has a population of only 310,000.

The top-heavy bureaucracy was exposed online by outraged netizens who said the local government was wasting taxpayers' money.