Chinese netizens focus on corruption
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The National People's Congress and National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference will be held in Beijing on March 3 and 5 respectively. Several online surveys show that Chinese netizens care most about corruption.
According to surveys conducted by official legal Web sites, legaldaily.com.cn and chinapeace.org.cn, combating corruption is the key topic to be discussed at the two sessions. The results of a survey conducted by people.com.cn show that corruption was ahead of other topics such as wealth gap, house prices, legal relocation of citizens, pension insurance and fair education opportunities. This is the third consecutive time corruption has been regarded as the most important topic.
The survey of people.com.cn showed that more than half of the netizens surveyed thought the major reason for the high level of corruption in China was mild punishments and incomplete legal and supervision systems. 69 percent of netizens thought middle level government officials tended to commit the most corruption. 56 percent of netizens said they think corruption in the public security department, procuratorate and court is increasing. 50 percent of netizens agreed that the government should solve the problem by media and people's supervision. Only 13 percent of netizens felt enhancing education in ideology and politics was the solution.
Meanwhile, corruption was replaced by pension insurance as the most concerning topic among netizens in the survey of people.com.cn.
Some analysts said that amending Electoral Law of Representative of National People's Congress would be another area of importance in this year's sessions. The current electoral law was enacted in 1953 and amended in 1979. It has been amended four times in total. In the first draft of the law, the number of people a representative could represent from rural and urban areas was 8 to 1. The number was changed to 4 to 1 in 1995, 4 rural votes equaled 1 urban vote.
The law is expected to be changed to make the proportion 1 to 1 this time and add face-to-face meeting between the candidates and the voters into the election procedure. Education and medical service reform and amendment of removal regulation will also be discussed by representatives and committee members.
Chinanews said in an article on February 20 that Sino-US relations will draw attention from Chinese representatives and the rest of world because of recent international affairs such as trade friction, RMB exchange rate, USA selling weapons to Taiwan and US president Barack Obama meeting the Dalai Lama.
