Sound bite

"The government needs to make decision-makers, executors and supervisors independent from each other, yet able to restrict each other. The central government should carry out institutional reform to increase its work efficiency. The administrative system should become more professional and its reform should be accelerated. In addition, the authority of the independent supervisors must be ensured so that they can monitor the decision-makers and executors."

Chi Fulin, president of China (Hainan) Institute for Reform and Development

"When the government transforms its functions, it should not ignore the key points of its job; for example, making new jobs, protecting laborers' legal interests, adjusting national wealth distribution, improving the social security network, eliminating poverty and boosting domestic consumption. All of these jobs should tilt to the disadvantaged groups of people and cannot be done by any other party singlehandedly. The government should strengthen its roles in these fields. The most difficult part of the transformation of government function is to reconstruct the government's values and to decentralize the government's powers. The government should be a clean organ ruled by law, with a strong sense of responsibility, and serve the public's interests."