Legislator resigns after road cave-in

A legislator from East China's Jiangsu province resigned on Saturday after illegal construction of a basement under his Beijing courtyard caused a street surface to collapse in Xicheng district.

Li Baojun, who was a member of the Xuzhou People's Congress, submitted his resignation to the local legislature's standing committee on Saturday morning. The committee voted to approve Li's resignation in the afternoon.

Li, president of Haiying Group, a corporation in Jiangsu that focuses on auto parts production, apologized to his Beijing neighbors in an open statement on Friday, promising to compensate for all losses from the incident.