Big push against inertia

Li Chaoxing, director of the Tianjin Municipal Commission of Industry and Information Technology, was recently dismissed from his post because of his failure to fulfill his duties.

According to a notice issued by the Tianjin authorities, in August 2013, the commission signed a framework cooperation agreement with a government department to jointly build a data center in Tianjin. However, it failed to come up with any cooperation content in the following three years, resulting in the agreement's lack of substantial progress. Li, as head of the commission, always held a passive attitude toward the project and thus was held accountable for not pushing it forward, according to the notice.

As the senior official in charge of the commission's work, Li deserves his punishment and this is by no means unfair treatment.