China's prolific Internet users, hell bent on exposing corruption in government functioning, have another reason to smile.
Their consistency in blowing the whistle on corrupt officials has even encouraged the spokesman of the country's top court to open his own blog, with the sole intention of "connecting with the public," English-language China Daily reported Wednesday.
"Anyone and everyone is welcome to leave messages on my blog. I will try hard to be a trustworthy and respectable spokesman," readthe Supreme People's Court (SPC) spokesman Sun Jungong's web page,http://sunjungong.home.news.cn/blog, which popped up on the Xinhua News Agency's official website on Tuesday.
Chinese netizens flocked to Sun's blog address to hear their new friend in the judiciary. By Wednesday morning, Sun's page had seen more than 7,000 visitors and 130 comments, most of them positive.
Sun's move to open his blog comes close on the heels of a notice issued by the top court last week, urging judicial officersat all levels to "better communicate" with the general public.
"The rapid growth of the Internet has offered us a faster and broader way to hear from and respond to the people," Sun said during an online interview Tuesday, which he immediately made public on his blog.
Sun wrote that the traditional way to communicate with the country's people, which meant occasional visits to their homes and listening to their grievances or complaints, "obviously cannot reflect the true picture."
He said more than 300 courts across the country had recently opened and made public their mail boxes on www.chinacourt.org after the SPC issued the notice last Tuesday.
"Direct communication between court officials and the public will help the people better understand our work," Sun said. "And we must adhere to the principle that we tell them no lies."
Chinese courts were facing an increasing pressure to ensure fair and efficient trials and fight corruption, while the financial crisis has only posed new challenges for them, Sun said.
"We should be frank with the media and facilitate their interviews," he said.
A few Internet users took the opportunity to give their opinions on allegedly unfair verdicts, while some offered suggestions to the ongoing judicial reform.
Zhou Ze, a law professor at the China Youth University for Political Sciences, was quoted by the report as saying that Sun's blog and recent measures taken by the top court were obviously a step forward in ensuring a fair and transparent judicial system.
Source:Xinhua
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