http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/300-chinese-cab-drivers-hold-strike-in-south-china/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Sat, 26 May 2012 19:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/300-chinese-cab-drivers-hold-strike-in-south-china/#comment-5433 Shiro Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:21:58 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=28923#comment-5433 There's the opinion from a researcher in the Development Research Centre (that reports to the polit bureau) that this is a sign of progress http://eastasiaforum.org/2008/11/27/china’s-economic-reforms-pushed-by-civil-society/ To quote: "When the first strike happened in Chongqing, the party chief of Chongqing, Bo Xilai, solved it in a different way to what is sometimes expected in China — to listen to the appeal of the taxi driver and reform the regulation of the government, rather than put pressure to stop the strike in the first place. These kind of examples can be seen as definite progress toward civil society in China." There’s the opinion from a researcher in the Development Research Centre (that reports to the polit bureau) that this is a sign of progress
http://eastasiaforum.org/2008/11/27/china’s-economic-reforms-pushed-by-civil-society/
To quote: “When the first strike happened in Chongqing, the party chief of Chongqing, Bo Xilai, solved it in a different way to what is sometimes expected in China — to listen to the appeal of the taxi driver and reform the regulation of the government, rather than put pressure to stop the strike in the first place. These kind of examples can be seen as definite progress toward civil society in China.”

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