“Idiotic nonsense!”
Wu Qian, spokesman of China’s Ministry of national Defence,
on a Japanese military expert’s remark that “Japan can sink
China’s aircraft carrier Liaoning within half an hour.”“The current zhuangyuan [the candidate for national
university entrance exam who gets the highest scores
in a province or municipality] are all from elite families
(like me).”
Xiong Xuan’ang, this year’s Beijing zhuangyuan, attributing
his success to his family’s wealth and Beijing’s extraordinarily
abundant education resources. His remark has sparked hot
discussion about China’s social mobility.Illustration by Wu Shangwen“It is too early to conclude whether or not the shared
bikes are overburdening cities. As the investors
and operators are still looking for a sustainable
development model, it is not wise for the government
to over-interfere in the process. Let the market decide
who will survive.”
zhang Ying, professor of the Guanghua school of
Management, Peking University, on the management of the
booming bike-sharing industry.“The local people’s congresses [China’s local organs of
state power] should take charge of supervising the local
governments’ power and implementation of laws and
regulations instead of helping them misuse their power.”
Commentator Tan Haojun for Party-owned paper Guangming
Daily on the role of the local people’s congresses in managing
local government debt.“I don’t think that AI will lead to mass unemployment. I
think robots will not take over half of the current jobs for
at least 30 years , and even then, new jobs arising from
high-end service sectors like education, medical care and
tourism will absorb the replaced employees.”
Liang Jianzhang, co-founder and chairman of the board at
Ctrip, an online platform that offers hotel reservation and
other booking services, countering the idea that AI will make a
massive number of people jobless.“When you feel aggrieved at some social phenomenon,
it is better to try your best to change it than simply curse
about it on your keyboard.”
Hu zhengrong, president of Communication University of
China, delivering his address at this year’s commencement.“The news that an official’s housekeeper was put into
prison for bribery proves that corruption has its fingers
in every pie – power has spilled over so much that it has
even reached beyond an official’s ordinary social circle.”
Shen Bin, commentator for Sina News on the news that
the housekeeper of Li Yilong, the disgraced former Party
secretary of Hengyang, Hunan
Province, was sentenced to 16
months for taking a bribe of
200,000 yuan (Us$30,800) by
exploiting Li’s influence.“We should be more concerned with the
management, protection and legacy of heritage sites.
The point isn’t just to get on the World Heritage List.”
Liu Yuzhu, director of China’s state Administration of Cultural
Heritage, reminding local governments that heritage sites are
not meant as polish for officials’ resumes.“It is not a disease to use a mobile phone, but
it is to over-use it. With a mobile phone, we no
longer fear a late delivery, a bad dish, a long
queue or being alone. Any time when we dive
into the world of mobile phones, the real world
becomes less important.”
Commentator Tao Shun at China Youth Daily warning that
people’s addiction to mobile phones will cut them off from
real-world social contact.