Papers call for hukou reform

• Source: Globaltimes
• [03:30 March 02 2010]
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Corruption, demolition top issues

Corruption remains the top concern among Internet users for the coming two sessions, an online survey conducted recently by the People's Daily website showed.

This is the third consecutive year corruption is one of the top five issues on the NPC meeting, according to the poll.

In addition, the poll showed that Internet users want the NPC to address pension more than any other issue.

Other issues Internet users concerned include demolition, corruption, the skyrocketing cost of housing, the gap between the poor and the rich, the healthcare system and education, according to the poll.

About 15 provincial and ministerial-level officials were sacked in China last year. Li Tangtang, vice-chairman of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, was kicked out of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) for "serious violations of discipline and law" Sunday.

Economics professor Hu Xingdou, from the Beijing Institute of Technology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, told the Global Times Monday that the two sessions should focus more on efficiency because some problems discussed at the previous sessions haven't been properly solved.

"I advise that the annual meetings should have one focus instead of discussing too many aspects," he said.