Voices on fairness and transparency in environment evaluation

"Only when the public takes part in the environment evaluation process can the staff involved be prevented from giving in to interest groups and instead make objective judgments."

Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, an environmental protection NGO,

on fairness and transparency in environment evaluation, posted on his Sina Weibo Thursday.

"The misunderstanding that banquets equal corruption should go. We should publish and properly supervise official spending."

Hu Guangwei, a researcher at the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences,

on public anger at extravagant official feasts, quoted by xinhuanet.com Thursday.