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China quake response under scrutiny
As China copes with its worst earthquake in more than 20 years,differing views are emerging in the Chinese media of the government's response.
Official news outlets such as the main English-language paper China Daily paint a positive picture of the authorities' handling of the disaster, both in terms of rescue efforts and keeping the public informed.
But one mainland commentator - in a paper in the southern city of Guangzhou - complains that public disaster awareness has proven tobe woefully inadequate, while Hong Kong dailies say the Beijing authorities still fall short in terms of openness and concern for thefate of ordinary people.
EDITORIAL IN CHINA DAILY：
TV footage of Wen [Prime Minister Wen Jiabao] touring disaster zones, organising rescue work on the spot and consoling victims trapped in ruins has not just drawn tears from national audiences: we are seeing the nation joining hands to defy the ruthless forces of nature.
Wen has set an admirable example which best illustrates the current leadership's emphasis on public well-being... Our national emergency response mechanisms have emerged stronger through the tests over theyears.
WU HANGMIN, OFFICIAL CHINESE NEWS AGENCY XINHUA：
[The government's] performance has scored high marks [onopenness about the earthquake]. Timely information disclosure,effective mobile phone messages and the internet undoubtedly played an enormously significant role in communicating the facts as quickly aspossible, in order to dispel panic among the public.
LIU KEMEI IN GUANGZHOU DAILY：
There is a lack of awareness of public security in both public education and the media. Unlike in economic development, where accomplishments are conspicuous, disaster awareness campaigns and public education take a lot of time and effort.
This lack of awareness has resulted in numerous insufficiencies in disaster-precaution education.
EDITORIAL IN HONG KONG'S APPLE DAILY：
白痴小报的话也好意思拿来作依据？
What has shocked and enraged people most is that a great number of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools collapsed and that numerous children and youths were buried alive and died tragically.
How could the authorities still attempt to escape with the excuse that it is a natural disaster? In comparison, those well-built government buildings remain undamaged... However, the government suppressed such information for the sake of maintaining stability.
有封锁消息么？睁眼说瞎话。不是自然灾害还是大癞蛤蟆发功咯？
EDITORIAL IN THE HONG KONG ECONOMIC JOURNAL：
We hope the Chinese government will not shoot the messenger butinstead step up investigations into the possible blunders and publicgrievances revealed by those reports, in order to alleviate further tragedies not directly caused by the natural disaster...
你怎么知道人家没调查？站着说话不腰疼
To build a completely transparent system, the Chinese government shouldn't view overseas criticism from the perspective of conspiracy theory, but instead investigate whether the state has sufficient capability to forecast earthquakes.
国际上有几个批评的？明明就自己在跳，莫非真把自己当overseas了。。。。
BBC Monitoring selects and translates news from radio, television, press, newsagencies and the internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.It is based in Caversham, UK, and has several bureaux abroad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7400300.stm
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