In an interview with reporters on the afternoon of 19, Zhu Shangtong said that he had retired for 22 years and lived in the dormitory building of Hunan Provincial Education Department. Now when he opened the window, he saw scaffolding, construction and wall painting everywhere. He asked someone to inquire about it. It was said that a pilot project of a Mars neighborhood Committee cost 211 million yuan, and the whole city did not know how much it would cost. So, he couldn't help sending a letter to Chen Runer, the secretary of the municipal party committee he didn't know. At the same time, he also gave the letter to a friend, who contacted the netizen Zhou Xiaoyun, who published the letter online.

When asked if he was worried that the contents of the public letter would bring pressure to the relevant officials, Zhu Shangtong said, "Since all major renovations in the city can be made public, why can't this be made public? Every official needs pressure, otherwise they are only responsible for the upper and not the lower! "

Zhu Shangtong told reporters on the evening of 19 that Li Wei, the mayor of Furong District, Changsha City, visited his home for more than an hour that afternoon. Li Wei said that after reading the letter, the district felt very wronged, and they wanted to do things well, including solving the practical difficulties of the masses and making every household connected with gas and tap water pipes. Zhu Shangtong said that he was thinking differently: If you don't want to judge civilized cities, you just have to do things well one by one. Is it necessary to ban "five small restaurants (that is, small restaurants, small steel and aluminum alloy processing shops, small waste recycling shops, small karaoke bars and small car repair shops)"? Do you need scaffolding everywhere? Zhu Shangtong also refused to ask him to declare that the online letter was not published by him.