Four journalists suspended for Xi’s ‘resignation’ mistake

Four journalists of an official Chinese news agency have been suspended after committing a typographical error which suggested President Xi Jinping was resigning, a media report said on Monday.

The two reporters and two editors of China News Service - an official service that has a status similar to that of Xinhua - were suspended after referring to President Xi Jinping’s “speech” (zhi ci) at the China-Africa summit in Johannesburg last week as his “resignation” (ci zhi).

The four journalists were suspended even as most of the online reports had corrected the mistake.