When China's retired basketball superstar Yao Ming attended a Communist Party共產黨 advisory顧問 meeting last month, a press photograph of him showed several other delegates代表 sleeping peacefully安然地 to either side.
According to Chinese state media, the mayor of Guangzhou has now had enough of interminable沒完沒了 speeches in stuffy悶熱 rooms - and has said so in a fifty-eight-minute address.
Wan Qingliang told a local Party session that speeches should be capped封住 at an hour for key meetings, and half an hour for less important gatherings聚會.
That might be a wake-up call for China's National People's Congress, where speeches can drag on拖延 for two hours. Another Guangzhou official, Tang Jinhua, was quoted被引述 as saying that lengthy冗長 speeches left little time for any actual decisions實際的決定. And he said some of the paperwork wasn't needed at all: we just throw some documents away, he said, after reading the titles.
According to Chinese state media, the mayor of Guangzhou has now had enough of interminable沒完沒了 speeches in stuffy悶熱 rooms - and has said so in a fifty-eight-minute address.
Wan Qingliang told a local Party session that speeches should be capped封住 at an hour for key meetings, and half an hour for less important gatherings聚會.
That might be a wake-up call for China's National People's Congress, where speeches can drag on拖延 for two hours. Another Guangzhou official, Tang Jinhua, was quoted被引述 as saying that lengthy冗長 speeches left little time for any actual decisions實際的決定. And he said some of the paperwork wasn't needed at all: we just throw some documents away, he said, after reading the titles.
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