BEIJING In the latest of a series of sex scandals involving public officials that has rocked China, the southwestern city of Chongqing said that 10 county- and district-level officials and executives from state-owned companies were fired after they allegedly appeared in secretly filmed sex videos.
China has more than 1, 000 county-level governments and hundreds of cityand municipal councils that rely on revenue from local taxes, land sales and central-government transfers because rules bar most from selling bonds.