4 Journalist suspended after typo wrongly announces President Xi Jinping resignation

Four journalist suspended after typo wrongly announces  China's President Xi Jinping resignation.

It seems the journalist at the state-owned news agency had mixed up the Mandarin words for "speech" (zhi ci) and "resignation" (ci zhi).

Xi Jinping had been at a China-Africa summit in Johannesburg when the China News Service published a report quoting him as saying in his "resignation" that China and Africa had a shared destiny in their histories.

So, instead of simply delivering a speech, China's president was "resigning".

The story went viral before the agency was able to issue a correction.

According to the South China Morning Post, a number of CNS journalists have left their jobs over the error, including the agency's South Africa bureau chief.