From United Daily, summary translated by CDT:
Zhang Xianliang, a famous writer and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) criticized the members of the National People’s Congress and CPPCC, also referred to as the “two sessions.” He pointed out that the local government and officials have no ability to supervise and not be able to operate the supervision system.
Zhang said this large team is given the legal rights to supervise the government servants. However, almost no corrupt officials have been exposed by local members. Some local officials have broken the law, abused their power and fooled the central government. There are about two million two session members from the provinces and counties. They have heard of these corruption cases, but they all kept silent.
He thinks that even though the two sessions have also been held locally every year, the local people have no expectations and no interest in the meetings, because the two sessions have almost no impact on the local political life. There is no real communication between the members and people. Thus, Zhang has proposed a bill to call for reducing the number of present CPPCC members and increasing the representatives of different social classes to speak for different social groups.
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