Top officials open up to the foreign media

I don't think journalists attending Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's press conference on Monday should complain about lacking a fair opportunity to ask a question.

In about two hours and 40 minutes, Wen answered 12 questions, six of them from the international media.

Some people have calculated that he has taken up to 60 questions from foreign journalists alone in his nine meetings with the press at these annual sessions since he took office in 2003; this accounts for nearly half of all queries.