“In order to strengthen mathematical research, we must once again emphasize the importance of mathematics in primary education. Otherwise, it is like water without a source.”
Chen Zhiwen, a columnist with financial magazine Caixin, speaking out against a ban on Mathematical Olympiad training among elementary students.
“When opportunities for the poor are reduced at a large scale, the idea of respecting the choices of the poor is a naive wish at best and an unfeeling excuse at worst. If poverty alleviation stops out of such respect, that is like pushing the poor into an abyss.”
Li Xiaoyun, a professor at China Agricultural University and consultant for Narada Foundation, an NGO focusing on social issues,writing on the foundation’s official blog Narada Insights.
“We must always hold three bottom lines when implementing the ‘one country, two systems’ policy in Macao and Hong Kong: no jeopardizing State sovereignty, no challenging the central government’s power and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s authority granted in the Basic Law, and no using Hong Kong to conduct disruptive activities directed at the Chinese mainland.”
Yang Guang, spokesperson for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, on the recent riots in Hong Kong at a press conference on July 29.
“Many currencies have been depreciated against the US dollar since the start of August, and the yuan exchange rate is also being influenced to a certain degree. The market determined and drove these fluctuations. The current yuan exchange rate is at a proper level, no matter if looked from China’s economic fundamentals or market balance.”
Yi Gang, president of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), talking about the yuan exchange rate on the PBoC website on August 5.
“The abuse of its power as a ‘market organizer’ has enabled the US to put the whole international market in its hands.”
Economist Song Hongbing posting on Sino Weibo that China should participate more in revising and designing the rules of the international market.
“While China leads in application of mobile payments, it’s still weak in fundamental technological research. Without mobile terminals, chips and operating systems, mobile payment is as fragile as a house built on sand.”
Pony Ma, president of China’s Internet service giant Tencent, talking about future technology in a recent video clip posted by the China News Service.
“It is hard to forecast the future of digital currencies, since the rules that govern currencies are still being developed.”
Taiwanese economist Cai Kailong (Charlie Tsai) who served as chief strategy officer for Bitcoin exchange platform Huobi in 2018, analyzing digital currencies on his public WeChat account.
“While insisting that China become more open, America is itself becoming more closed.”
Chas W. Freeman, former ambassador to China and also the US’s chief translator during Richard Nixon’s visit to China, warning on his blog The Sino-American Split and its Consequences that US exclusiveness will further weaken its economy.
“After China becomes an all-round well-off society by establishing a high-level market economy by 2020, increasing the middle-class population should be another important objective. Based on international experience, China will not fully cross over the middle income trap unless it realizes this objective.”
Liu Shijin, vice-chairman of the China Development Research Foundation, at a forum on the establishment of a high-level market economy in Beijing.