Chinese PM to Train Passengers Through Bullhorn: ‘I Apologize’

That’s right. In what reporters are terming a rare move, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited a Hunan train station and apologized for the travel chaos caused by historic winter storms and power outages around the nation. He used a bullhorn.

“We are currently trying our best to repair the system,” he said. Hundreds of thousands of rail passengers in the country have been stranded at a critical travel time leading up to Chinese New Year celebrations. How bad is it? “In Guangzhou, the booming southern industrial city, authorities said they expected as many as 600,000 train passengers to be stranded there by Monday,” the New York Times reports. “The police were being deployed around the city’s central railroad station as a precaution to keep order.” That’s bad.

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