On the Development of Normal School Education in China (1926)

Nanchang, April 9: Wang Shaoxiong from Guangming Daily and our reporter Zhao Xiangru reported that the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Commission for Discipline Inspection recently investigated and severely punished a major case of malpractice in the enrollment of graduate students at the Jiangxi Medical College. Ma Ti, former member of the party committee and vice-president of the college, was expelled from the party and demoted from the level of deputy chief of a provincial governmental department to that of section chief, and his salary reduced by one level. Shang Junjia, deputy party branch secretary and deputy chief of the scientific research section, was dismissed from all his posts inside and outside the party. Yu Changfeng, a functionary in the scientific research section, was expelled from the party and put on a two-year probation pending discharge. The Provincial Party Commission for Discipline Inspection publicized this incident through the province so that cadres at all levels will learn a lesson.