The director of the Beijing Olympic ticketing department has been sacked in the wake of the chaos surrounding the second round of ticket sales for the 2008 Games.
The sale of 1.85 million tickets on a first come, first served basis was abandoned after less than a day last month when overwhelming demand caused the ticketing system to collapse.
Rong Jun admitted organizers had underestimated demand but his apology to the Chinese people earlier this month was clearly not sufficient to save his job.
Zhu Yan was introduced as his successor at a news conference on Friday.
Zhu, who works for the city government as head of the "Digital Beijing" project, said Rong remained with the department in another role.
"Rong Jun is still my colleague working with us," he said.
"In the past year the department has done a lot of fundamental work but ticketing is a complicated job which involves the policy, public interests and concerns, and technological solutions."
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