Province probes interference in ski resort's activities

Northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Thursday ordered a local ski resort management committee to apologize to a private company in the sector and would punish its staff involved for "serious disciplinary violations."

The announcement came as a video clip went viral recently, in which Mao Zhenhua, chairman of the Sun Mountain ski resort at Yabuli, a town in Heilongjiang, accused the local resort management authorities of "using power to edge out private companies", including asset seizures and unreasonable police investigations.

"We have been here for 22 years," Mao said in the video. "Then they (the management committee) come along. They are the government but also a company. They use the government cover to seize our assets."