The official Weibo of China Manned Aerospace Engineering Network @人空航空小声半 just posted a post stating that Comrade Yang Liwei was transferred to another post normally, and that netizens’ slanderous remarks about him are untrue, and they will be held accountable.
The full text is as follows:
#航空英雄吧宁被被# In July last year, Comrade Yang Liwei no longer served as the director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office because he had reached the maximum number of years for leading cadres.Recently, some people have maliciously slandered the aerospace hero on the Internet and spread rumors to slander Comrade Yang Liwei.We strongly condemn and resolutely oppose this kind of behavior, and will seriously investigate the legal responsibility of the relevant parties in accordance with the law.
Previously, Yang Liwei was rumored to be corrupt due to his job transfer, which many netizens believed to be true.
#8203; Now when searching for Yang Liwei on Weibo, the keywords of corruption pop up:
Under Yang Liwei’s Weibo post as China’s ambassador for science popularization, some people are asking whether the rumor is true:
They were all sent back by popular science blogger @航空面面观:
