"Jaywalking and drunken driving are both traffic violations. Some people used to doubt the effect of incorporating drunken driving into criminal offenses, but now they are convinced. As long as we pay attention to strict management and awareness promotion, the practice of jaywalking will be reduced."

WANG CHANGJUN, director of the Traffic Management Research Institute under the Ministry of Public Security, discusses harsher punishment for jaywalking in some cities.

(China Daily 04/12/2013 page2)