China moves ahead with transparency – People’s Daily

Posted by Xiao Qiang | Sep 13, 2005

China announced Monday it has declassified materials relevant to the death toll in natural disasters.

This change and many others before it indicate the government is serious about transparency.

There have been so many similar developments in recent years that people have begun to take them for granted. They include the establishment of a spokesmen system across the country, the reform to make public administrative decisions at the grass-roots level and then gradually upward through higher levels and the availability of road maps to go through administrative approval procedures on government websites.

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