CHINA / SOCIETY By Global Times Published: Jan 24, 2021 01:18 PM
Accident site of a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, East China s Fujian Province, March 8, 2020. Photo: Xinhua
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) criticized some government bodies and individual officials for engaging in formalism, bureaucracy, malpractice and corruption while disclosing details of the investigation into the collapse of a hotel used as a COVID-19 quarantine center in East China s Fujian Province last year and the explosion at a chemical plant in East China s Jiangsu Province in 2019.
Investigation details revealed in a TV series broadcast by China Central Television (CCTV) since Thursday exposed the problems in relevant organs in the collapse of an illegally constructed building used as a COVID-19 quarantine center in Quanzhou, East China s Fujian Province on March 7, 2020, which caused 29 deaths, and the deadly explosion that struck a c