Law enforcement official loses his temper with 'journalist'
BEIJING - An official in Northeast China's Liaoning province gained unexpected fame after word spread on micro blogs that he had verbally abused a self-proclaimed journalist.
On Wednesday afternoon, thousands of micro blog tweets began to emerge on several Chinese Twitter-like websites saying that Zhong Jixiang, 56, deputy chief of the law enforcement authority in Jianchang county of Liaoning, had responded to a phone media inquiry with threats such as "Mind your own life".
A man claiming to be a journalist with the outspoken Guangzhou-based Southern Weekly had called to seek Zhong's comment on allegations that he had mishandled an interview request by Wang Lisan, a journalist from the Shanghai-based Oriental Outlook magazine. Zhong replied by saying that the man had better mind his own life, according to the micro blogs.
