Audra Ang reports on growing dissatisfaction among people forced from their homes to make way for the giant Three Gorges Dam. More info here and in this PDF report. Meanwhile, Benjamin Kang Lim, private entrepreneurs, taxi drivers and fishermen were given the opportunity to choose the worst performers in the local county government. The "winners"

were suspended for six months. Their salaries were halved and they were forced to undergo self-criticism, Communist jargon for reprimand.

Shades of this. Of course, top officials even at the county level were off-limits.