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September 22, 2010, Wednesday
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A modern office compound 8.5 times the size of the White House is now the workplace of civil servants in an underdeveloped county in Anhui Province, even though local students and teachers still use dilapidated classrooms.
The complex is the new administrative center of Wangjiang County, which last year had a net fiscal balance of only 210,000 yuan (US$31,340) - no more than the annual income of a middle-class family in China's major cities.
The building occupies 12 hectares of farmland and has a working space of 43,600 square meters, according to an unidentified online whistle-blower.
The farmland used to be the county's vegetable plantation base, Xinhua news agency cited local residents as saying.
The Wangjiang government also spent more than 3 million yuan on the building's glass wall, Xinhua added.
According to a rule by the general office of State Council in April 2007, county heads are granted working spaces of no more than 20 square meters.
If this rule were to be followed, the Wangjiang administrative center could accommodate almost 2,200 county heads.
Meanwhile, some 300 students and teachers of the local Dawan primary school are still in dilapidated classrooms, admitted an unnamed official of the county government.
The county government's press office told Xinhua that they are tenants in the office building, which was developed by a local urban investment group, even though the investment firm was government-backed.
The press office added that a new 1,200-square-meter school building will be completed for Dawan primary school by December.
Wangjiang government said that the development of the new office complied with the law from its inception and that officials would be able to serve locals better from their new headquarters.
The complex is the new administrative center of Wangjiang County, which last year had a net fiscal balance of only 210,000 yuan (US$31,340) - no more than the annual income of a middle-class family in China's major cities.
The building occupies 12 hectares of farmland and has a working space of 43,600 square meters, according to an unidentified online whistle-blower.
The farmland used to be the county's vegetable plantation base, Xinhua news agency cited local residents as saying.
The Wangjiang government also spent more than 3 million yuan on the building's glass wall, Xinhua added.
According to a rule by the general office of State Council in April 2007, county heads are granted working spaces of no more than 20 square meters.
If this rule were to be followed, the Wangjiang administrative center could accommodate almost 2,200 county heads.
Meanwhile, some 300 students and teachers of the local Dawan primary school are still in dilapidated classrooms, admitted an unnamed official of the county government.
The county government's press office told Xinhua that they are tenants in the office building, which was developed by a local urban investment group, even though the investment firm was government-backed.
The press office added that a new 1,200-square-meter school building will be completed for Dawan primary school by December.
Wangjiang government said that the development of the new office complied with the law from its inception and that officials would be able to serve locals better from their new headquarters.
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