“The Chinese football team sucks beyond belief! They didn’t do anything right at the [last] China Cup. They simply exist to upset the Chinese people. It’s absolutely shameful.”
Nie Weiping, China’s “Grandmaster of Go,” on China’s national football team and its decades of disappointing performances following a press conference for the 2019 IMSA (International Mind Sports Association) World Masters Championship
“No software can translate culture.”
Wang Sicong, popular blogger and son of Wang Jianlin, one of Asia’s richest businessmen, in response to writer Hua Qianfang’s idea that “It’s no use for most Chinese people to learn English”
“It’s like every consumer is stark naked, exposing their data on platforms.”
Shi Jianzhong, deputy president of the China University of Political Science and Law, calling for tightened management and supervision of personal data use and protection, at a press conference for the 2018 Chinese Law Enforcement Report held in Beijing in late March 2019.
“China is still a middle-income country, its GDP per capita is 15 percent of that of the US. It’s a huge gap and we have to keep up reforms.”
Wang Xiaolu, deputy director of the National Economic Research Center, in his new book The Road of Reform (1978-2018)
“5G’s greater importance lies in its widespread commercial use. The real start of the AI era will begin with 5G. I see 5G as the key driver of AI development.”
Yang Yuanqing, president and CEO of Lenovo, at the China Development Forum held in Beijing from March 23-25
“The most expensive car is a father’s shoulders and the most expensive house is a mother’s tummy.”
A 12-year-old student in Heilongjiang Province who appeared in a video taken at his birthday party that has since gone viral
“As economically independent women no longer need to seek marriage for economic reasons, the institution is losing its economic foundation.”
Huo Zhongyan, a columnist with financial portal Caixin on the reasons behind the growing number of single people in China
“Is it really to the taste of city authorities to design ‘ghost cities’ where cookie-cutter stores line up like matchboxes, and turn their residents into ranks of robots with no independent thinking or sense of aesthetic?”
The Asia Pacific Hotel Alliance on its WeChat account railing against moves by some local governments to standardize storefront signage