Tianzhen County () is a county of
Shanxi
Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...
province, China, bordering
Hebei
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province to the northeast, east and south and
Inner Mongolia
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to the northwest. It is under the administration of
Datong City and is the northernmost
county-level division
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of the province.
History
Corruption scandal
In March 2017, various Chinese media have reported that a deputy head of the county's Transportation Management Office (), identified as Zhang Ming (), was involved in an affair with a married woman, and used 50 people to force the mistress's husband to divorce her. Zhang is reportedly under investigation.
In response, Zhang said he was framed, and the allegations were untrue.
Climate
Notes
:a.The married woman's identity has been released, in various forms, by various news outlets.
Beijing Times and Taiwanese news site ETToday identified her as Shi Xiaoli (),
while
China Youth Daily
The ''China Youth Daily'' () is the newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China since 1951 with editorial and financial independence in the People's Republic of China.
In the 1980s, it was regarded as the best newspaper in mainland China wi ...
identified her as merely Xiaoli ()
References
External links
Official website
County-level divisions of Shanxi
Datong
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