英語(yǔ)角-圓桌會(huì)議 RoundTable - 爆米花變?cè)壕€印鈔機(jī)
Recently, a Peking University student comes back from an exchange program in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. When he tells his PKU classmates that he read lots of humanities books, he is asked that question of what is the point.
Do you read non-major-related books when you were in college?
Topic2 Should PE be included into Gaokao?
A member of the Beijing CPPCC committee suggests physical education test should be included as part of the Gaokao given the worsening overall health and fitness of Chinese teenagers.
How bad is the physical health of Chinese teenagers?
Topic3 Where are all the best students now?
An interesting discussion is going on among many of those who used to perform best in their classes about how their classmates who always came last turn out to be more successful now.
Are top performing students usually less successful later in life?
Topic4 Career attitude of young workersA recent survey shows that young employees born after 1980 prefer bosses who treat them with care, respect, motivation, open mind and fun.
The survey interviews over 10,000 young workers and is carried out by Jiangsu Leader Human Resources Service Co., LTD and Nanjing Municipal Labour Union.
What does this survey tell us about young employees nowadays? Is there a huge difference between them and the older generation of employees?
Topic5 Sleeping Quality Differs in Different JobsToday is World Sleep Day. The Chinese Medical Doctor Association just releases China Sleep Quality Index 2014. According to the report, the more stable one's job is, the better he or she sleeps.
That sounds about right. But what exactly does the report say regarding one's quality of sleep and one's job?
Topic6 Puffed-up popcorn profits showcase Chinese cinema boomChina's biggest cinema chain has sold an astonishing amount of popcorn in 2013!
According to figures published on the website of Wanda Cinema Line Corp., it sold 390 million yuan's (63 million U.S. dollars) worth of popcorn last year.
It has constituted 72 percent of its concession product sales, or 9.5 percent of its total 4.1 billion yuan taken in revenues in the 12 months.
Never expected popcorn to make such a big money in cinemas, right? What does it tell?
