2007 NPC, CPPCC Journal, Outspoken comments – Josie Liu

From China in Transition blog:

Feng Peien, CPPCC national committee member, denounced tremendous wastes and extravagant spending of public money by governments around China. He listed a series of shocking numbers, including: government agencies spend over two trillion yuan every year in operating a few million government vehicles, while only one third of the usage is really for official businesses; government officials spend trillions of yuan every year in dining and visiting foreign countries in the name of studying or training, but in fact mostly tourism. [Full Text]