Quotable

"This requires us to better accomplish our work, to have a thorough understanding of problems and to think maturely about the solutions to these problems. Directly facing the public allows not a scrap of ambiguity."

Yuan Hua, deputy Party secretary of Chuzhou, Anhui province, about his experience on a live TV show in which officials answer questions from the audience. Yuan is the director of a newly launched project in Chuzhou. During the show, he was asked pointed questions such as how the government will re-house the 1,400 inhabitants displaced by the project and whether the project will benefit the people.