work there. However, China Economic Times picked up the story and subsequently offered Wang a job as a senior reporter in January 2002. Publishing this story resulted in threats to both Wang and his family from the local mafia running the scam; he is sometimes referred to as "China's most expensive reporter" because of the $600,000 price put on his head. An internal report on his work from the Xinhua News Agency reached the Premier of the People's Republic of China at the time, Zhu Rongji, who ordered police protection for Wang and his family and brought Wang to Beijing so he could continue his journalism. Vaccines story On March 17, 2010, after six months of investigation, Wang published a story in China Economic Times exposing how a "gross failure" to refrigerate vaccines in the Shanxi province caused four children to die and 74 others to become ill. He reported that the vaccines were deliberately left unrefrigerated in order to stop the labels from peeling off. Shanxi officials claimed that Wang's story was incorrect, and within hours of publication, the report had been downplayed on other media outlets following orders from the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China. The chief editor, publisher, and Communist Party secretary of China Economic Times, Bao Yueyang, was fired after defending the report, and moved to a minor sister company. Wang was later warned that his life may be in danger if he returned to the Shanxi province. Suppression Wang has been forced to resign twice from major Chinese newspapers, from China Economic Times in 2011 and from The Economic Observer in February, 2013. References External links Wang's blog (Chinese) People's Republic of China journalists Living people 1964 births Academic staff of Peking University Chinese bloggers Writers from Gansu People from Lanzhou Chinese investigative journalists