After "National Day", the news that Yang Xianghong, the Secretary of Lucheng District in Wenzhou, was staying in France due to illness, quickly spread throughout Wenzhou. Before National Day, Yang Xianghong led an inspection team to Paris. Two days later, he left the team alone on the grounds of visiting his daughter who had already settled in France. When the inspection team was about to return home, he informed by phone that his old problem of herniated disc had recurred and he had been hospitalized in France. He refused to return home on the grounds that he could not take a plane.