Civil servant paid for doing nothing
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Jiang Jinxiang [File photo] |
A freeloading civil servant has become the target of Internet slurs after netizens discovered he had been paid for more than seven years without working a single day.
Sarcastically dubbed "China's most capable civil servant", Jiang Jinxiang was recommended to a post in the urban construction supervision branch in Longyan city of East China's Fujian province in October 2003.
Though he never showed up for his job, his salary was still punctually deposited into his account every month - for the next 89 months.
When reached by China Daily on Friday, Jiang claimed he was never aware his post had been transferred to the urban construction supervision branch.
"I was never notified about my 'new job'. I thought the money was payment during my suspension from a previous post," Jiang said.
Jiang, who had been a section chief in the Fujian Provincial People's Congress, was suspended from his work in 2002 over a controversial case, and has been out of work ever since.
Xinhua News Agency quoted an official with the Longyan city government as saying that Jiang was recommended to his current post by the city's personnel bureau.
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