Saturday 04 February 2012 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead
Chinese President goes online

Now citizens of China can directly interact with their President without taking the pain to meet him.

Beijing: Now citizens of China can directly interact with their President without taking the pain to meet him. The Chinese President Hu Jintao has become online to chat with citizens through a major news portal of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The ‘Qiangguo Forum', launched by the mouthpiece of the CPC, has been a big hit since the news of the President going online surfaced.

The news has led thousands of people post their queries and write-ins on the forum.

"The Internet is a major channel for public opinion," Hu said during the chat, and added that he has squeezed his time to go online, though he would not be able to surf the net daily due his busy schedule.

The President logs on to the website to view domestic and foreign news, to learn what interests people on the Internet and to solicit their advice and opinions about the work of our government.

The Qiangguo Forum, meaning ‘powering the nation', has more than 23,000 daily postings and the highest simultaneous web page visits exceeding 1.4 million.
iGovernment Bureau

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