Shanghai Daily news

Delegates read the working report of the Shanghai Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the opening of the committee's annual plenary meeting yesterday.

Several municipal advisers are urging the government to do more to relieve traffic congestions and to reduce disorder on city streets, particularly from impolite business card distributors.
They delivered their written proposals to the government yesterday at the opening of the annual plenary meeting of the Shanghai Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Their suggestions included encouraging cycling in the downtown area, eliminating the errant use of police cars and enhancing government supervision in eliminating street disorder.
More than 800 members of the CPPCC's Shanghai Committee - the city's top advisory body which includes scholars, scientists, democratic parties and non-party members, and returned overseas Chinese - attended the conference which opened yesterday at Shanghai Exhibition Center.
During the meeting which runs through Friday, members are supposed to write proposals to the various government sectors.
"The government needs to have more awareness to encourage cycling downtown as a major means of short-distance traffic," Wang Zhong, a member of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, said in his proposal.
He said the government needed to have an overall parking plan for cyclists and to build more cycling-only traffic lanes.
He indicated a cycling-based traffic scheme could effectively reduce traffic congestions and turn Shanghai into a more environmentally friendly city.
Municipal counselor Zhang Jihao proposed enhancing the regulation of the city's police vehicles.
"Some police vehicles don't obey traffic rules, driving unrestrictedly on the street and sometimes parking overnight on the disallowed roadside," said Zhang.
Gu guozhu, another member of the committee from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, suggested supervision and management on the increasing number of illegal stalls, flyer distributors and beggars on street.
"This severely ruins the city's image and disturbs people on the streets," he said.
Most proposals presented during the session will be distributed to relevant government departments, which are supposed to respond on how to solve the problems.