County govt under fire for costly building

HEFEI - The government of a poverty-stricken county in East China's Anhui province has been asked to submit a self-criticism report for erecting a huge and extravagant office building, but no official has been held responsible for the scandal.

The city government of Anqing in Anhui province announced on Monday that the office building, in the city's Wangjiang county, was overdecorated and put up without all the approvals needed from higher authorities.

The county government was encouraged to bring a halt to the unnecessary decorations and adopt stricter approval procedures for such decorations, but no single person or group was held responsible for the outrage.