The Shanghai Sports Bureau announced that Liu Xiang chose to seek employment independently, after which the official Weibo account enabled the comment selection feature, triggering mockery from netizens over the official's inconsistent words and actions.
Liu Xiang posted that he received a 494,000 yuan buyout fee on September 1 and officially bid farewell to the system, and will donate the entire amount of over 980,000 yuan in salary earned over the 11 years since his retirement to the China Charity Federation for disaster relief in Tibet.