三亚3名交通局负责人引咎辞职 [11-15 22:46]中国社会确实进步了，这在以前是不可能发生的事。民主是一个长期的过程，梁启超反对革命，因“民智未开”，如今的民智算是开了吗？发达地区好像开了，但占大部分人口的农村依旧。但愿中国最终能平稳走向民主社会。
据新华社三亚11月15日消息，自11月10日开始，持续5天、严重影响海南省三亚市旅游形势和城市形象的出租车司机罢运事件目前得到平息。三亚市交通局局长陈治帮、党组书记李明德、副局长易治军因在此事件中存在严重失误，14日向三亚市委提出辞职，15日三亚市委接受上述3人的辞职，相关手续按照法律程序办理。
另据记者采访得知，14日海南省委常委、三亚市委书记江泽林当面向近2000名出租车司机作出降低承包金的承诺，截至15日18时，各出租车公司已向司机退还多收的承保金达到应退总数的70%。
三亚市委接受交通局3名主要负责人的引咎辞职，表明三亚市委市政府将加大“执行力”的力度。据了解，三亚市政府于2007年底作出决定，从2008年1 月1日开始，全市出租车承包金统一调整，降低承包金，以减少出租车司机的负担，但交通局没有及时跟踪落实市政府的决定，致使政府的承诺历时11个月没有下文。三亚市委认为交通局工作严重失职。
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Taxi drivers in a third Chinese city have gone on strike, testing the central government's tolerance for worker demonstrations in a time of growing labor-market concerns.
On Wednesday, hundreds of taxi drivers in the resort city of Sanya on the southern island province of Hainan entered the third day of a strike over fees paid to taxi companies and competition from unlicensed taxis.
A taxi driver earlier this week in Sanya in the southern island province of Hainan. The sign reads: "Sorry, driving suspended."
About 1,500 miles away, roughly 150 drivers in Yongdeng County in northwest China's Gansu province returned to work after a strike that began Monday, following promises by local authorities to eradicate competing illegal taxis within 10 days.
The two strikes follow last week's walkout of about 9,000 drivers in Chongqing, an event that generated an unusual degree of attention from public officials. It is unclear whether the latest strikes were related to the Chongqing strike, but labor experts said the example set by the first strike as well as the government's positive response were likely a factor.
The Chongqing strike, which began Nov. 3, "made an impact," said Zhou Litai, a Chongqing-based labor-rights lawyer. "People noticed that it worked."
That attention underscores official concerns about maintaining social stability as China's economic growth, red-hot in recent years, slows to a pace that may not provide enough jobs and wealth for a hungry population. Authorities are especially sensitive to urban protests because they are potentially more disruptive than rural unrest or strikes by factory workers in city suburbs. Observers are bracing for more labor unrest as businesses close or lay off workers.
Chinese police help right an overturned taxi last week after angry taxi drivers attacked colleagues who refused to join their strike in Chongqing.
"There's a lot more coming, though the government will probably take a very flexible approach to the strikes as long as it's in their interests to do so," said Andreas Lauffs, a partner at the law firm of Baker & McKenzie who specializes in Chinese labor issues.
In Chongqing, where the strike stranded commuters around the city, officials vowed to provide more fuel supplies, eliminate extra fees that drivers are required to pay to taxi companies and crack down on unlicensed cabs that city cabbies said were stealing business. Last week, driver representatives received a rare audience with a high-ranking official. By that time, most of the taxi drivers already had returned to work.
Experts say that strikes by China's taxi drivers have occurred fairly regularly in recent years. Mary Gallagher, an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan, said drivers are generally well organized, can coordinate over their radio systems and "know they have a lot of power, being essential to transportation." However, those strikes didn't receive the amount of government and media attention bestowed on the Chongqing strike.
In Sanya, the strike showed few signs of progress Wednesday. No taxis were in service and dozens of drivers protested outside the city government offices, according to official news agency Xinhua. Striking drivers added another demand to their list: the release of 28 people detained in connection with strike-related violence, the news service said. Striking drivers were reported to have attacked others who continued working and to have smashed 15 vehicles during the previous days of the strike, it said.
One Sanya cab driver, who gave his name only as Mr. Wu, said he and his colleagues were worried that they would be targeted if they went back to work on their own. "We're afraid of going out," he said. Mr. Wu said that he learned about the strike over the radio from other drivers and that workers hadn't received any information from their employers or colleagues about returning to their jobs.
Hu Wenzhong, the director of the Traffic Administration Department at the Sanya Communications Bureau, said that about a third of the city's roughly 1,000 licensed taxis had resumed work by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Acting Mayor Wang Yong on Tuesday offered an apology to drivers and pledged to improve the taxi industry, according to state media. "Lots of issues exist in our transport management, and I apologize for that to the city's taxi drivers," Xinhua quoted him as saying.
Write to Sky Canaves at sky.canaves@wsj.com
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