Legal Experts – and a Court – Blast Bureaucrat's Appointment to Bench

(Beijing) – A low court in the capital and legal experts have questioned the recent appointment of a bureaucrat with seemingly few credentials to head a court in the eastern province of Zhejiang.

Wang Zhongyi, 49, secretary of the Communist Party committee in the government of Pingyang, a county under Wenzhou in Zhejiang, is one of the eight officials whose names were published by the provincial government on September 22 in a promotion announcement.