Recycling officials: Is it right?

Xie Zhenhua, former director of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), who accepted the blame for a 2005 chemical spill that seriously polluted the Songhua River and resigned, was recently appointed deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner.

Xie is now in charge of environmental protection and energy saving, the new main focus of the NDRC's work, the 21st Century Business Herald reported.

Earlier, Ma Fucai, former president of China National Petroleum Corporation, who resigned after an oil well eruption accident in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality in 2004, became a deputy director of the State Energy Office in 2005.