Bai Yansong, an anchorman for China Central Television (CCTV), commenting on news of a woman who posted a photo to Sina Weibo showing that she had driven a luxury car into Beijing’s Forbidden City
“A healthy society should have more than one voice.”
Dr Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan, Hubei Province who sounded the alarm over Covid-19 but was reprimanded by police for “spreading rumors,” during an interview with financial portal Caixin. Li died of Covid-19 on February 7
“Economic research should not only be based on cold macro-data and simple, rigid comparisons. Economists must care for the shops, daily necessities and daily lives behind the figures, especially disadvantaged SMEs and low-income populations.”
Economist Zhao Jian calling for more attention to be paid to the Covid-19 epidemic’s impact on small- and medium-sized enterprises on his WeChat account
“Parasiteshows that a critical and scrutinizing stance wouldn’t definitely conflict with the market. The key is how you express it.”
Dai Jinhua, director of the Chinese Movie and Culture Institute under Peking University, during a recent interview with WeChat news account GQ Report about the South Korean movie Parasite
“Expanding investment will no longer be a long-term driver of economic growth when rapid industrialization and urbanization are over.”
Teng Tai, director of The WANB Institute, a non-profit organization engaged in studying the new economy, during an interview with Femorning, an online financial news platform
“China has enough policy tools to cope with the economic slowdown. Before implementing monetary policy, we should consider multiple factors to maintain balance including economic growth, leverage ratio, inflation expectations and exchange rates. It’s more important to maintain economic growth amid the epidemic and the economic slowdown.”
Pan Gongsheng, deputy president of the People’s Bank of China, at a press conference on Covid-19 control and prevention held by the State Council on February 7
“Price controls will cause many problems, the most serious of which would force a decrease in supply and drive up prices on the black market. The epidemic will surely raise
the costs of production and transportation.”
Economist Zhang Wuchang on the government’s price controls on medical face masks during the epidemic on his Sina blog
“If ‘publish or perish’ becomes the rule for future generations, academia will be corrupted.”
Liu Chen, a doctor of sociology at the Guilin University of Technology, writing for Narada Insights, a news platform under the Narada Foundation, on news that the author of an academic paper on ecological economics had dedicated a significant portion of it to describing the beauty of his advisor’s wife
“Any media that doesn’t report the truth is fake media.”
Journalism researcher Du Junfei on Covid-19 epidemic reporting during one of his lessons
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