Jun 18, 2022 05:15 PM

Opinion: To Restore Public Trust, a Public Apology is Responsible Governance

Ma Xingrui, secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), made a public apology on behalf of the Shenzhen government for the 2015 Shenzhen landslide in 2015. Photo: CNR

In the spring of 2022, the entire Shanghai was put in strict lockdown, known as “static management,” for more than two months due to Covid-19 outbreaks. When the government released the schedule for lifting the lockdown, professor Qu Weiguo from Fudan University raised a critical voice: “Although the authorities have expressed gratitude to the people of Shanghai, it’s regrettable that there was no apology for the suffering of Shanghai residents over the past two months, which was as a result of the government’s mistakes.”