Premier

I have all my respect to our Premier - and the Secretary General of course - who made a relentless effort and travel around to materialize much of the work.

Nonetheless I am not all easy. There was a vivid incident in the early Han Dynasty, when the emperor asked Zhou Bo (周勃) - one of the prime ministers - the market price of crops and the number of court cases each year in the kingdom. Being a life-long soldier and probably illiterate, Zhou knew the answer of neither, and his face became all red.

The emperor then turned the questions to Chen Ping (陳平) - the other prime minister. Chen's response was seminal: "There are responsible officials for each of these questions. As the top administrators of the empire, our task is to advise Your Majesty on important policies and make sure people at all levels of the system are doing the right job, rather than knowing - and have a hand on - every details of all aspects of the government operation."

PS. There is a fine line between emigrating to Pluto and giving a free hand to the front line people (but still know what's going on). The sobering truth is: many extra-terrestrials live outside the solar system but keep having a hand on things happening on earth.