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Weekly Quote: China has no world-class university

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-04-18 15:13

"Hiding facts from the public for sake of victims."

Four employees of Taiwan-based Foxconn company died and two were badly injured after they jumped from a high-rise building between January and April. Faced with a question about the facts behind the deaths, a company spokesman said, “We didn’t unveil the findings out of respect for the deceased and their families.” [Jinghua Times]

"China has no world-class university."

“China has no world-class university and prestigious universities are based on stacks of funds,” Xu Zhihong， a former president of Peking University said. [Yangtze Daily]

"Teacher punishes students for their own good."

“Teachers tend to punish students physically for their own good. It doesn’t matter if there is no severe injury,” said a father whose daughter was slapped dozen of times in the face at an elementary school in Chongqing. [www.cqnews.net, run by Chongqing Daily]

"Thanks for giving me this opportunity on TV show."

“Thanks for giving me this opportunity on this TV show,” a man suspected of killing with a knife said while reading from a prepared card in Pengan, Sichuan province. [www.newssc.org]

"I am not an aristocrat."

“I am not an aristocrat and don’t pretend to be. I dislike so-called professors who can do nothing but criticize others for a living,” said Zhao Benshan, one of China’s top comedians after a professor pointed out the vulgarities in Zhao’s TV series. [Beijing Daily]

"Knives should be carved with ID no."

“Knife sales had better be banned completely during the Expo in Shanghai, and our government should issue kitchen knives with name, address and ID no. ,” Lian Yue, a writer in Shanghai, suggested. A recent regulation requires people who want to buy a kitchen knife to show an ID card first. [t.sina.com.cn]

"He was so skinny and weak, like a skeleton, and the doctor told me he couldn't be saved."

Dong Xiongbo's?mother talked about his son. Dong, who lived at a reeducation-through-labor center in Tangshan city, Hebei province for nearly a year, was 179-cm-tall but weighed only 35 kg when he died.[chinadaily.com.cn]

"Please remember, this lunar rover is created by China."

China has completed creating a lunar rover, which will be sent to the moon by the Chang'e-3 lunar orbiter in 2013, the People's Daily Overseas Edition reported Tuesday. Ye Peijian, chief designer of the nation's first lunar probe, Chang'e-1, said recently China has created more than 10 lunar rovers able to move, collect samples and analyze samples on the moon.[chinadaily.com.cn]