The following are excerpts from the press conference held by the State Council Information Office yesterday:

CNN: We do appreciate all the efforts that you've been making to institutionalize the spokesperson system. I wonder what you tell these ministries to convince them to come out and hold press conferences? Still, I wonder why the Ministry of Defence still does not do so?

Cai: In pushing for the press release and spokesperson system, we've tried our best to tell the ministries and local governments the significance of such a system.