Editor's note: The Supreme People's Court recently issued a pilot guideline on the penalties for drunken driving, which stipulates that drunken driving that might cause very little harm to society should not be considered a crime, and thus be exempt from the penalties set out for dangerous driving in the Criminal Law, sparking a heated public debate. Following are the views of three experts on the subject:

The reasonable change should be appreciated

Liu Renwen, director of criminal law faculty, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences