“THE MOST VALUABLE ASSET TEACHERS WILL PROVIDE TO FUTURE CLASSROOMS IS EMOTIONAL CONNECTION. EDUCATION IS A PROCESS OF GROWING TOGETHER, SO TEACHERS SHOWING STUDENTS HOW TO BE BETTER HUMANS WILL BE EVEN MORE IMPORTANT.”
Wang Shuyan, general president of Beanstalk Education Group, on AI’s influence on education at a seminar hosted by CITIC Private Equity
“Some regions focus on rewarding families that have second or third children while ignoring the birth rate of first children, which is the basis for the general fertility rate. This will not only inhibit families from having a first child but also exert a negative influence on desires to have more than one child, thus preventing a balanced fertility rate.”
He Dan, director of the China Population and Development Research Center, in an article for its affiliated magazine Population and Health
“If we are deprived of the Chinese market, we don’t have a contingency for that. There is no other China. There is only one China.”
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang in an interview with the Financial Times in late May
“[Declining] domestic demand has greatly impacted mid-sized enterprises, causing the New Orders Index to drop 3 percent to 46.3 percent, while [declining] overseas demand has hit small enterprises, causing the index to fall by 2.8 percent to 44.1 percent.”
Zhao Wei, chief economist at SinoLink Securities, analyzing the decrease in China’s Purchasing Managers’ Index for May in an interview with guancha.cn
“If Japan insists on restricting SinoJapanese cooperation in semiconductors, it will not only lose access to the huge Chinese market but also damage its credibility and the future of the Japanese semiconductor industry. The US aims to reestablish its semiconductor hegemony, and if Japan does what the US expects it to do, Japan and China will lose, and the US alone will win.”
Wu Jianghao, Chinese Ambassador to Japan, speaking at a meeting held by the Japan Council for the Promotion of International Trade on June 2
“It’s like a few streams overstretching to encircle and isolate the Yangtze River and the Yellow River - they will only end up drying themselves up.”
Hua Chunying, spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a tweet about the US decoupling with China on May 31
“The Chinese yuan’s exchange rate down to more than 7:1 against the US dollar is the combined effect of internal and external elements. Externally, US debt negotiations are at a deadlock and expectations that the Fed will further tighten monetary policy are increasing, causing the US dollar to bounce back. Internally, the latest data shows that the Chinese economy was slower to recover in the second quarter compared to the first quarter of the year.”
Guan Tao, chief economist at Bank of China Securities, in an interview with NewsChina’s Chinese edition in early June
“A promising society has young people actively realizing their dreams, not waiting to sit the civil service exam.”
Wang Mingyuan, law professor at Tsinghua University, on China’s rising young unemployment rate in an article for a WeChat media account under the financial magazine Caijing in early June
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