The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is considering banning officials from giving long speeches at meetings. Audience members in China are often caught dozing off, even at televised events.
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When China's retired basketball superstar Yao Ming attended a Communist Party advisory meeting last month, a press photograph of him showed several other delegates sleeping peacefully to either side.
According to Chinese state media, the mayor of Guangzhou has now had enough ofinterminable speeches in stuffy rooms - and has said so in a fifty-eight-minute address.
Wan Qingliang told a local Party session that speeches should be capped at an hour for key meetings, and half an hour for less important gatherings.
That might be a wake-up call for China's National People's Congress, where speeches can drag on for two hours. Another Guangzhou official, Tang Jinhua, was quoted as saying that lengthy speeches left little time for any actual decisions. And he said some of the paperwork wasn't needed at all: we just throw some documents away, he said, after reading the titles.
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Viv Marsh
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delegates
delegeler, bir toplantıya katılan kişiler
had enough of
(çok olan bir şeyden) bıkmak, usanmak; daha fazlasını istememek
interminable
bitmek bilmez, sonu gelmez, çok uzun
stuffy
havasız; basık, boğucu
address
konuşma
capped
üst sınıra tabi, sınırlanmış
gatherings
toplantılar
a wake-up call
uyarı alarmı, bir soruna dikkat çeken olay
drag on
sürüp gitmek, bitmek bilmemek, çok uzun süre devam etmek
paperwork
evrak, belgeler
