Top city official fled overseas in April

A senior official of Fengcheng, Liaoning province, has fled China amid the nation's testing of measures that prevents corrupt officials from running away and that repatriates fugitives.

A publicity official in Dandong, the city that administrates Fengcheng, confirmed to China Daily on Tuesday that Wang Guoqiang, the Party chief of Fengcheng, fled the country in April.

Song Ximei, the publicity official in Dandong, said she could not verify that Wang ran off with 200 million yuan ($31.5 million), as anonymous sources posted on the Internet, leading to the exposure of the incident.