Businessman highlights need for streamlining

His work on reducing government approval procedures won backing from Premier Li Keqiang

Cao Zhiwei, a real estate company chairman and member of the political advisory body of Guangzhou, admits to gaining a far greater sense of achievement from the latter role.

Cao only became a member of the advisory body toward the end of 2010, but he stole the limelight at the annual session of the Guangzhou committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in January 2013 by displaying a 4.4-meter-long graphic that detailed all the government approvals necessary for an investment project.