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The public deserve more say on large facilities
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-05-31 08:48
A Chinese scholar has complained that the public has little say on the
building of large facilities like the National Opera Houses, the new TV
Transmission Tower, the new CCTV Office Building, and the new departure hall of
the Capital Airport in this national capital.
The new CCTV center is
designed as a 230-metre-tall structure, which comprise two
inverted L-shaped towers joined high above the ground. [sina/file
photo] |
Dr. Deng Xiaomei, deputy
director of the Engineering Management Institute of the Qinghua University,
urged the government to make these kinds of projects more transparent and let
the public have a bigger say.
Technical experts often have to give in to pressure from interest groups when
they are seeking for opinions on the building of large public buildings, Deng
said. In this case, procedures that have been used to ensure scientific
decision-making have become nothing but a formality, he noted.
The government should try to consult public opinions in different ways, like
surveys, community-based forums and public hearings, before launching any large
public projects funded by public resources, he said.
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