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Beijing: Facing public
grilling on live television can be a tough experience for
officials, but some Chinese local governments think it might be an
effective measure to improve government work.
Many local governments have recently launched series of live TV
shows in which officials answer questions from an audience, Xinhua
reported Sunday.
The live TV shows were initiated in Wuhan, capital of the central
Hubei province, in 2010. It has been adopted in Hunan, Henan and
Hainan this year.
Yuan Hua, deputy party secretary in Chuzhou in the eastern Anhui
province, said it was the first time he answered such detailed and
sensitive questions on live TV.
Yuan, also the director of an under-construction industrial park
with an investment of over 100 billion yuan (around $16 billion),
was asked how the government will re-house the 1,400 households
displaced by the project and what will it do to prevent corruption
and ensure fairness.
"This requires us to better carry out our work, to have a thorough
understanding of problems, and to think maturely about solutions
to the problems. Facing the public directly allows not a scrap of
negligence," he said.
During the TV show, Yuan spoke about the progress of the project
and revealed a timetable and how it was being supervised.
An Guoling, an official with the local government of Chuzhou, said
that for questions that cannot be solved on the spot during the
show, officials have to give written replies within a certain
time.
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