Better services should not wait for leaders to experience problems

THE PARTY CHIEF OF SANYA, Hainan province in South China, recently waited 55 minutes at the local train station to get a taxi. As a result he has promised to accelerate taxi reform in the city. Comments:

Taxi companies have long been criticized for their poor service and high rates. It is a consensus of ordinary residents that the current system in which government-run taxi companies enjoy a monopoly needs to be changed. It is necessary to break the interest alliance of local governments and monopoly enterprises to accelerate reform.

Hainan Daily, Nov 4