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BEIJING - A Chinese Government website encouraging citizens to report corruption crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits.
China's National Bureau of Corruption Prevention, formed in September after a string of high-profile scandals involving government officials, launched its official website yfj.mos.gov.cn on Tuesday.
By the afternoon, the website could not be opened, the Beijing Youth Daily said. It quoted an official as saying that the "number of visitors was too large".
The website was up later, the paper said, and had 12 pages of comments left by internet users on its discussion board ranging from allegations of collusion between driving schools and government traffic bureaus to criticism of the website itself.
- Reuters
