China’s anti-graft watchdog publicly shames and demotes Chinese railway official who sent 2,300 bawdy texts to woman

In a rare move, the anti-graft watchdog of China Railway Corporation announced a demotion of a senior official by revealing vivid details of his “inappropriate affairs” with a woman - and possibly her daughter too.

The official report about Huang Gang – detailing more than 2,300 bawdy text messages he had sent to the woman on his phone – was later published online and quickly went viral after being shared by thousands of people in only a few hours.

Huang, 50, bureau director in Beijing, who was in charge of railway safety, was demoted to the position of deputy bureau director and placed on probation for one year by Communist Party officials as punishment for his behaviour, the news website Thepaper.cn reported on Thursday.

The five-page document, dated November 8, was posted on the mainland microblogging website, Weibo.com, on Wednesday. Within hours it had been shared thousands of times.

It showed that Huang sent more than 2,300 bawdy text messages to the woman, whose surname is Yang, over a six-month period this year.