The survey was carried out in 16th and 17th, March, 2003. 2000 phone interviews were made to respondants chosen by multistage random sampling. The sample covered 10 cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhanjiang, Shantou, Shaoguan, Jieyang, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing, 2000 residents aged from 18 to 65 were reached as respondents. The survey found that 75% of the respondents had a high opinion of the two Congresses, and over 80% had great confidence in and expectation to the newly selected national leadership. 74% favored the work by journalists and reporters as they fully publicized Congresses. Among the interviewees, 70% acknowledged the status and significance of the Congresses and their representatives in national politics. It was also found that the professionalization of the representatives in both Congresses appealed to more than 60% of the respondents, still there were 88% in favor of “reception day” hosted by the representatives of both Congresses.

    To obtain an overall assessment of the social credibility establishment, a survey was recently conducted as guided by the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee in Guangzhou and organized by our center. It has sampled a body of randomly chosen 2,649 interviewees from 3groups: ordinary city dwellers, professionals and people from focus trades.
As is turned out in the survey, greater importance is unexceptionally attached to an accelerating establishment of social credibility. More than 95% agree that to speed up the construction of social credibility is important to the development of Guangzhou,among them 77.6% think the construction of social credibility is “extremely important” to the development of Guangzhou, 17.7% think it is “rather important”,and 0.4% think it is “not very important” or “not important”. Social credibility has shown signs of varying improvement, as commented by 67% of the ordinary city dwellers and so did 59% of professionals. 69% of interviewees affirmed the varying credibility improvement in every walk life. The rate of people in all groups who think “social credibility is worse than before” is low, the percentage of them are all less than 6%.
Ordinary city dwellers and professionals are mostly dissatisfied with the faking and counterfeiting in products and commodities with percentages of 41.2% and 39.3% respectively. 30.5% of the ordinary city dwellers showed their varying dissatisfaction with entrapping and inveigling.More than 20% are dissatisfied with the unjustified charging and tax dodging, stealing and evasion. 29.3% of professionals are dissatisfied with advertisements and commercials of mendacity,and their dissatisfation with the unjustified charging and tax dodging, stealing and evasion is over 20%.
The survey has shown a relatively higher assessment of the municipal credibility establishment. As it has increasingly become a social focus, endeavors to advance and improve its establishment will be of principal importance. It is suggested by the ordinary city dwellers that credibility inculcation and publicity surveillance will be the forces to its advancement and improvement, while professionals resort to enterprise credibility and institution construction.