The premiere of Your Voice, a documentary film reflecting Beijing's practice in promptly responding to public demands to improve city governance, was held at China National Convention Center in the city on Tuesday.
The event was one of the supporting activities for the 2024 Beijing Forum on "Swift Response to Public Complaints", which is being held from Wednesday to Thursday and focused on showcasing the metropolis' achievements in resolving public grievances through the 12345 citizen hotline.
The event was attended by over 400 people, including officials from the Beijing municipal government, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and China Media Group (CMG), chiefs of globally renowned cities, front-line workers of the complaints handling service, and major film producers.
Shen Haixiong, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and president of CMG, noted in his speech at the event that Beijing, a mega city with a permanent population of more than 21 million, has always adhered to the people-oriented development concept and taken a creative approach to "governance driven by citizen demands". Shen said that the Your Voice film also adheres to the people-centered concept to tell the vivid story of Beijing's reform practice, and integrates theories, emotions, and practical work to reflect the lives of local residents.
The film uses phone calls received by the 12345 citizen hotline as clues, and tells seven vivid stories such as the growth of hotline operators, resolving parking difficulties, and citizen scoring mechanisms through real examples. It interprets how challenges facing a mega city have been tackled from the perspectives of agile governance, resilient governance, proactive governance, and smart governance.
The film was jointly produced by the CMG, the organization department and the publicity department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and is scheduled to be released to public in 2025.
Documentary film on swift response to public complaints premiered in Beijing
Chinese airlines have recorded over 700 million passenger trips so far this year, marking a record high in the history of China's civil aviation development, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
As of Sunday, the country's airlines reported a total of 700.48 million passenger trips since the start of the year, CAAC data showed. The total number of the air passenger trips for 2023 was 620 million, according to CAAC figures.
The daily average number of passenger trips has exceeded 2 million, which is 18.1 percent higher than that in the same period last year and 10.7 percent higher than that in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The robust recovery of the aviation market in 2024 has been largely driven by domestic routes, which logged about 640 million passenger trips, representing a 13-percent increase year on year and a 14-percent increase compared to the same period in 2019, according to the CAAC.
"This year, domestic trunk airports have steadily expanded their backbone network, while feeder airports have also further expanded their basic network as part of their efforts to improve services that rely on local tourism resources. Some regions, such as Xinjiang, Yunnan and Inner Mongolia, have connected themselves to both trunk lines and feeder lines to forge new business forms integrating civil aviation and tourism, leading to the vigorous development of the domestic market," said Zhong Shan, chief economist of the Institute of Air Transport at China Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology.
International routes also showed remarkable growth with more than 60 million passenger trips, reflecting a year-on-year surge of over 130 percent and reaching around 88 percent of the pre-pandemic level in 2019, as global travel restrictions eased and demand rebounded, the CAAC noted.
Monthly data have remained at over 90 percent of pre-pandemic levels for five consecutive months since July this year, the administration added.
What worth noting is that air passenger transport reached new heights during travel rushes such as the Spring Festival and summer vacation season, with the daily average number of passenger trips reaching 2.1 million and 2.29 million, respectively.
The single-day peak passenger volume is at 2.45 million this year, an increase of 9.8 percent compared to the highest daily figure last year, according to the CAAC.
China's air passenger transport hits record high in 2024
