Seven departments of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee have instituted their regular spokespeople system, a media website of the CPC opened into use, and a namelist of delegates to the CPC National Congress released before the congress started; a vital policy decision of "boosting Party affairs into the open step by step" was made for the first time in the CPC history at the Fourth Plenum of the Party's 16th Central Committee, and the practice of "boosting party affairs into the open" was proposed in the report to the ongoing 17th CPC National Congress. With all its trying efforts, the CPC has represents itself to the world with a posture of more openness and greater confidence for itself.
First live, direct online broadcast of Party Congress
The direct broadcasting room of the People's Daily (PD) online office set up in the Great Hall of the People was amid a bustling scene early Monday morning. When the first batch of pictures on the scene began transmitting online at 8:30 a.m., the live language broadcast started simultaneously and, at 9:00 a.m., the Congress opened with the playing of China's national anthem in the magnificent hall. And netizens all over the globe then received the direct picture, language and audio-visual broadcasts of the opening ceremony of the Party Congress synchronously.
At the same time, the Xinhua News, China (Daily) News, and CCTV China Radio International news also made direct online broadcasts of the congress's opening function. Thus the Internet has been made a channel and a platform to facilitates the openness of the Party Congress.
On that day, the PD Online Strong Nation Forum opened a special column for "the direct, simultaneous broadcasts and comments" on the conference and initiated a heated discussion among netizens on a host of "hot spot" issues enumerated in the report to the Party Congress. In the afternoon, the PD Mobile Phone Online Strong Nation Forum hosted a large-scale joint dialogue, at which netizens submitted close to 200 questions of all sorts in a matter of one hour right after it began.
Internet links CPC and ordinary Chinese heart-to-heart
In compliance with arrangements made by the Congress secretariat, Tuesday was designated as an "open day" for the CPC Delegation of central China's Henan province, which arrested the focus of media attention from both at home and overseas. Its panel discussion formally started at 9:00 a.m, and Xu Guangchun, the provincial Party secretary, voiced his welcome to reporters from China and overseas to their discussion on behalf of his fellow delegates.
Then, Provincial Governor Li Chengyu spoke first on the importance of the scientific outlook on development and, afterward, Chen Quanguo and other delegates from Henan province enunciated on the necessity and inevitability for promoting social harmony based on progresses made in both rural and urban areas and in the education of higher learning since the previous CPC Congress convened in Nov. 2002.
Meanwhile, Shi Jiangtao, a farmer in the outlying Shuwan village of Lushi county in western Henan followed their discussion closely at his website in his rural hotel at the foot of 2057-m Yuhuang Hill peak at the juncture of Henan and Shaanxi provices. He is doing his business well with accesses to the relevant information he obtained from the internet. "I feel as if I were present at the group discussion site (in Beijing) and they have all spoken my mind," he said, noting that "the internet has links us farmers with the Party Congress heart to heart."
China's transparency increasingly enhanced
It was also a "day of openness" for the CPC Shanghai Delegation Tuesday, on which Phoenix TV reporters from Hong Kong came to cover their panel discussion. Shen Deyong, A Standing Committee member of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and concurrently secretary of the Municipal Discipline Inspection Committee of the CCDI, invoked a vivid metaphor in reply to a Phoenix TV reporter's query if the Shanghai social security (fund) case, which had toppled former Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Liangyu, would affect the local regional development.
So far, 1,135 reporters from 310 media units in 55 countries and regions worldwide had applied for the coverage of the current CPC National Congress and some 700 of them came to report its grand opening ceremony, according to relevant figurers released by the Congress media center, and two primary or secondary school kids from two media units got a special permission from the center to cover this historical event.
Moreover, as a representative of the new-emerging social strata in China, Zhai Yuhua, a law firm director from central-south China's Hunan province, said with a sense of pride that he had interviewed journalists from approximately 20 media units. He went on to explain that he set high standards for himself by his motto: "speaking the truth, nothing but truth."
Shanghai Party delegates had a wide range of topics to confer on during their panel discussion, which covered, among other themes, those on preparations for the World Expo (in 2010), which has long been cited as the "Olympics" of the economy, science and technology with its 150-year history, the development of enterprises, and the "open-door administration of colleges or universities".
"Shanghai is duty bound to spur the coordinated regional development," said its Party Secretary Xi jinping. In its service for the Yangtze River Delta in east China and the rest of the country, he acknowledged, talk on the topic of openness has just begun perhaps as far as his city is concerned.
The Party's National Congress has turned increasingly open, and China's openness and transparency has been increased and enhanced daily either from the government administrating domains or the Party governing aspects. This notion represents a unanimous view of most reporters now involved in the reportage of the ongoing CPC National Congress.
By People's Daily Online |
