Officials lose jobs for failure of oversight

Company was told to stop polluting; it secretly resumed production instead

Three officials responsible for a county in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region have been removed from their posts after a company that violated environmental protection rules resumed production without authorization.

Qian Kexiao, Party secretary of Yongning county in Ningxia's capital, Yinchuan, and Li Runjun, head of the county government, have been held accountable for the situation along with Xu Qing, vice-mayor of Yinchuan, who oversees environmental protection in the city.