Whether residents laugh or cry depends on officials' treatment

A video has been widely spread online that shows a house owner in Fuyang in East China's Anhui province crying as her house is being demolished. The woman complains that the demolition is illegal, while a laughing official simply pushes her away and says, "Do not speak anymore; you can try going to court." Comments:

President Xi Jinping recently said that "an essential standard of judging whether our policy is good or evil is whether ordinary residents laugh or cry". Obviously, the officials in Fuyang have done evil. As someone responsible for accepting the complaints of the residents, the official should have listened to the woman's words instead of turning her away. The fact that he openly failed in his duty must be because he belongs to the same bureaucracy as the officials that demolished the victim's house, and they share the same interests.

Beijing News, June 18