中國的互聯網上不會再有“表哥”了。
Quoting local officials, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Friday that Yang Dacai, a local official in Shaanxi province, had been ousted from his post for the possession of numerous expensive watches and other violations of discipline. Xinhua said officials are continuing a probe into his conduct.
新華社上周五援引當地官員的話報道，陜西省地方官員楊達才因佩戴多塊名表及其他嚴重違紀問題被撤銷職務。新華社說，對調查中發現的楊達才的其他違紀線索，有關部門正在進壹步調查。
Mr. Yang rose to Internet notoriety earlier last month after a photographer captured him smiling at the scene of a deadly collision between and bus and a tanker truck in Shaanxi that killed 36 people.
上個月早些時候，有人拍到楊達才在陜西省的壹起交通事故現場面帶微笑，此事在互聯網上引發了強烈爭議。在那起交通事故中，壹輛客車和壹輛罐車追尾，造成36人死亡。
But it was his accessories that soon became the focus of China's online vigilantes. Some noticed the lowly public official appeared to be wearing an expensive watch. China's massive community of volunteer Internet sleuths soon found a number of other photos of Mr. Yang wearing a succession of different high-end watches the sort of time pieces a local official in the hustings would be hard-pressed to afford with a regular government salary.
不過，是他的穿戴很快成為中國網民關註的焦點。壹些人註意到，這位職位不高的公職人員似乎戴了壹塊名表。中國龐大的互聯網“人肉搜索”群體很快就發現，在其他壹些照片中楊達才戴著各種名表，這種名表是中國壹名地方官員很難用普通工資買得起的。
Dubbed Watch-Wearing Brother by his critics, Mr. Yang went on the offensive. In a highly unusual move for a Chinese public official, he turned to the Internet to address is critics directly. Writing on his account on Sina Corp.'s Weibo microblogging service, he said he was sorry for his smile at the scene of the accident, explaining that he was having a hard time understanding the local dialect and wanted to put nervous comrades at ease. On the watches, he assured his critics that he purchased the watches 'using my own legal income.'
被批評人士稱為“表哥”的楊達才發起了反擊。他做出了在中國公職人員中非常罕見的舉措，借助互聯網直接回應批評人士。楊達才在新浪(Sina Corp.)微博賬戶中寫道，他要對遇難者家屬表示誠摯道歉。他解釋說：有的同誌口音比較重，有些話我聽不太清楚。我讓他們放松些，可能壹不留神，神情上有些放松。至於名表，他向批評人士保證是用自己的合法收入購買的。