“It’s highly inappropriate to label any child as an ‘unfinished construction project.’ Life isn’t like an engineering project, where you follow a blueprint, nor is parenting like building a house, and parents are certainly not contractors... This label reflects deeper contradictions and anxieties within our education system.”
Chen Hui, an associate professor at Northwest A&F University in Shaanxi Province, writing for guancha.cn on August 29
“Although working with leading companies is easier due to their maturity, we aim to make more of an effort to help lower-tier brands move forward. By doing so, we hope to make a small contribution to the industry’s growth.”
Dong Yuhui, a leading livestreamer known for combining Chinese culture in sales pitches, in an interview with NewsChina’s Chinese edition
“Among the factors affecting innovation efficiency, two are closely related to the challenges China currently faces: the country’s openness to the world and the vitality of the private sector.”
Huang Yiping, director of the National School of Development at Peking University, speaking at the 2024 China Business Annual Meeting on Enterprise Competitiveness held in Beijing in June
“[Japan-based economist] Richard C. Koo’s approach of fiscal stimulus involves having the government borrow money for investment. This method addresses demand issues by increasing supply capacity, but solving overcapacity by adding production will only worsen the problem.”
Sun Liping, a sociology professor at Tsinghua University, posting to WeChat on August 16
“The current gig workforce in manufacturing is marked by low job security, younger ages and higher levels of education... This trend presents new challenges for social insurance, human capital accumulation and labor productivity.”
Zhang Dandan, deputy director of the National School of Development at Peking University, speaking at a forum held by her school in June
“We have never left Henan [Province], where our largest factory on the Chinese mainland is located. In the past, many people tried to blacken Foxconn’s name, but their claims were not factual. At its peak, Hon Hai employed more than 400,000 people in Henan. How could such a large a factory simply withdraw?”
Liu Yangwei, chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn’s parent company, responding on August 23 to rumors that Foxconn left Henan for India but returned to China due to India’s poor quality control
“In today’s market, where the supply of goods is abundant and consumer demand is rapidly changing, vicious practices like price wars are disrupting the established market order. Such shortsighted, unscrupulous competition is detrimental to both the customer and seller experience.”
Zhou Yi, columnist for news portal guancha.cn, writing about the e-commerce industry on August 16
“Subsidies do not generate industrial competitiveness. Protectionism protects nothing but backwardness with the future as its cost. The rapid development of China’s EV industry is the result of persistent tech innovation, well-established industrial and supply chains, and full market competition. This is what happens when our comparative advantages provide exactly what the market needs.”
Lin Jian, spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responding to Canada’s recent announcement to place 100-percent tariffs on Chinese EV imports, at a Beijing press conference on August 27
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