NPC and CPPCC can be seen as the House of Commons and Senate in western. The representatives gave their proposals and decided whether to pass them or not. However, there is a fact that, many representatives have no political ability at all, they don’t know how to make a proposal, or have enough economic and law knowledge to judge whether the government is doing the right thing. Some representatives never vote against some proposal no matter these proposals are right or not. They said:
“I never vote against any proposal and government report, because I am loyal to the Party.”
“I never vote saying no, because I am a patriot.”—Ni Ping(倪萍), a former TV hostess
“I just come to learn, I have no proposal.”—Liu Xiang(刘翔), a former athlete.
“China should close all the private netbar, and let the government runs them(and make profit from it).”—Yan Qi(严琦), the chairwoman of Taoranju(陶然居). This is the most unbelievable speech against public will by a representitave who is supposed to speak for the public.
Another notorious speech is spoke by the sport department officer to the gold winner in Vancouver Olympic--Zhou Yang:” You should thanks for your country before you thanks for your parents.”
The most important speech is about the housing price by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in the government mission report:” The housing price must be restricted.” For almost 5 years, containing the housing price is an important topic in government’s mission, but it never decrease.
Many economists believe that there will be a serious recession in China economy in the near future, because the housing price is too high which casues a bubble economy. Ordinary people have to mortgage to buy a house in the rest of their life. But the local government and land developers make a lot of profit from it. The real estate industry is the key of China economy is still growing in the global financial crisis and exports decline.
The housing price is the biggest issue in China society. If the government can not solve it, the public will doubt government’s ability(well some are already doing, but the media covers them up). And more people are questing these representatives, who don’t take their responsibility seriously, can turely represent the public or not.
It is natural that not everyone is equal in China.—Kang Guoping
This is very interesting, every year People’s daily used the almost same layout and picture about two conferences.
