Audit official demoted for violating discipline

BEIJING - A top auditor in the city of Haimen, East China's Jiangsu province, was discovered to have violated Party discipline by spending lavishly on hospitality, among other infractions.

Shi Ping, director of Haimen Audit Bureau, on Saturday received an administrative demotion and a severe reprimand from the Communist Party of China for violating discipline after he was exposed in an online post last month.

The post, published by "hacksuper18" at the end of December on Tianya.cn, one of China's most popular Internet forums, revealed that the bureau hosted a luxury tour for its counterparts from Mianzhu, Sichuan province.