Article: Officials punished in SW China students' ethnicity falsification scandal

Officials punished in SW China students' ethnicity falsification scandal

CHONGQING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A total of 15 officials in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality have been punished for falsifying the ethnicity of 31 students to get extra points in the national college entrance exam, local authorities said Tuesday.

These officials, including deputy magistrate of Shizhu County Tang Ping, public security officials and ethnicity officials, were given warnings inside the Communist Party of China (CPC) or removed from their administrative posts, according to a statement from the CPC's Chongqing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection.

They changed the ethnic status of 31 ...

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