Zhou Ji received a total of 38,821 online messages, followed by Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Yin Weimin and Director of the National Development and Reform Commission Zhang Ping.
"We would like to become everyone's online friends, seeking advice, consulting suggestions and receiving public supervision."
Yu interacted with netizens to discuss issues including how to break development bottlenecks using innovation. Over 200,000 netizens joined the online discussions and provided over 7,300 opinions and suggestions.
On June 1, Wang Min wrote a public letter to netizens, saying that he was indebted to their valuable comments and suggestions concerning Jilin's development.
"The Internet helps government to learn public opinion."
"I have been a mayor for many years, but this is the first time I have ever felt the strong power of the Internet (as a mayor)."
Over the past year, there have been 22 provincial Party secretaries who replied to netizens via the "Local Leader Message Board", which is launched by People's Daily Online last July, let officials and netizens exchange ideas.
No doubt, Internet is changing the relationship between the government and its people in China. Internet politics is a substantive sign of the progress the Chinese government has made in the political arena.
By May 22, over 60,000 messages had been left on the Message Board, and 22 secretaries of the provincial CPC committee and provincial governors as well as 46 prefecture-level leaders had published their responses to netizens' messages. Issues brought up by more than 2000 netizens had been handled and solved.
