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
Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...
province to the northeast, east and south and
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...
to the northwest. It is under the administration of
Datong
Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 cens ...
City and is the northernmost
county-level division 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
The ''Beijing Times'' () was a Chinese newspaper published in Beijing that is a part of the People's Daily Group. When it started in 2001 it had 12% of the Beijing newspaper market and its percentage increased afterwards. Tang Wenfang and Shanto Iy ...
and Taiwanese news site ETToday identified her as Shi Xiaoli (),
while
China Youth Daily identified her as merely Xiaoli ()
References
External links
Official website
County-level divisions of Shanxi
Datong
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