英語(yǔ)角-圓桌會(huì)議 RoundTable - 廣州棄嬰島暫停

Topic1 Useless Official Property Declaration SystemA year ago, Nansha District of Guangzhou started a property publicity pilot as a measure to deter and clean corruption.

Recently Professor Lin Zhe of Party School of the Central Committee of CPC criticized that domestic experiments so far have proved to be useless or even an accessory to corruption.

Lin says in recent years, none corruption related crime is discovered under the help of the official property declaration system.

Are there problems with the current experiments on official property declaration?

Topic2 Guangzhou Halts Operation of Baby IslandsAfter 50 days of opening, the first baby hatch or so-called "abandoned Baby Island" in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has stopped operation for a while.

The reason is said to be due to an overwhelming number of abandoned babies that welfare organizations need to handle. It's the first baby hatch among the 30-plus such projects nationwide to stop receiving abandoned babies.

It's unknown when the facility will open again.

Is there good enough reason to stop operating the baby island?

Topic3 Roles of Security GuardsA short video entitled "Security Guards in the Forbidden City beat up female tourist" caught public attention. Many web users are shocked by the news and call for criminal punishment on these security guards.

Later the whole security guards bullying tourists thing turns out to be fake news, but it still arouses public debate on what role a park security guard should play and what security guard could do to drunk, violent and aggressive violators.

Is there a debate with the power of security guards? What's the power of security guards?

Topic4 Blacklist of Companies Who Refuse to Honor Court-ordered PaymentsLast week, the website of People's Daily launches a ranking list of people who refuse to honor court-ordered payments. In other words, it offers details of long-time defaulters, known as laolai in Chinese, throughout the whole country.

What does this list tell us? Is defaulting a big problem?

Topic5 NPC deputy suggest amendment on crime of corruption30 NPC deputies jointly handed in a motion on amending the criminal law concerning corruption.

Is there a current problem?

Topic6 Kungfu Becomes Compulsory Class in Jiangsu SchoolsMany Chinese dream of being a kung fu master when they were young. Now, the small kids in Jiangsu are one step closer to that dream, since the local educational department issues a regulation, stipulating that kung fu should be a compulsory content in their PE courses.