Local officials should not flout judicial rulings

AS EARLY AS February 2009, the local court of Tianxin in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province, ruled that the Wujialing sub-district office should pay its debt of 1.7 million yuan ($246,484) plus a late payment penalty to a technological company. However, the latter did not implement the ruling until the court published the incident on its official micro blog account. Gmw.cn comments:

The judiciary has the final say and there is no reason for the government to flout its ruling. However, the Wujialing sub-district office of the municipal government failed to repay its debt until eight years after the local court handed down its ruling in the case. That's a serious violation of the law.

Instead of behaving itself, this sub-district office and its leaders defied the law and the ruling of the local court by doing nothing to fulfill its obligation to repay a debt.