16 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Obviously, I am not complaining about the lack of attention for some of those ombudsman cases which we really feel deserve the coverage because of the fundamental problems involved, and of course we must always ponder whether our own presentation of the cases has been good enough. But the point is that we, also out of the media headlines, process many cases with wide-ranging perspectives for the individual person. COOPERATION WITH CHINA It has for many years been an important part of the Ombudsman institution’s work to assist countries around the world when they wish to adopt a form of the ombudsman concept or to work overall with legal rights for their citizens. In the 2013 Annual Report, we recounted how a new agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides us with a better framework for this activity. We also described various current cooperation projects involving, among others, China. In 2014, we again invested a lot of resources in the cooperation with China on the basis of those memoranda of understanding which we signed in 2013 with two central Chinese ministries (Ministry of Supervision and the State Bureau for Letters and Calls). It is an essential element of the memoranda that the Chinese wish to learn more about the Danish Ombudsman institution and Danish administrative culture. The cooperation has a high priority with the Chinese authorities, and during a renewed visit to Beijing in June 2014, I had the opportunity to meet, among others, Mr Wang Qishan, a member of the Politbureau’s Standing Committee and one of China’s top leaders. His particular responsibility is anti-corruption measures and good administrative practice, and he indicated that China has much to learn from Denmark. And in November, a Chinese delegation headed by Minister Shu Xiaoquin visited Denmark and had ‒ in addition to the Ombudsman institution, the Parliamentary Chairman and the Minister of Foreign Affairs ‒ the opportunity to visit both central and local Danish authorities. Among other things, it was thought-provoking to see how impressed a minister in a country with 1.3 billion citizens could be with a citizens’ advice centre in the municipality of Elsinore. The Danish public administration has its problems, but seen from an international perspective it is a role model. We should not forget that.