Any customer can get a 15,000-yuan insurance policy

    "Any customer who buys pork can get a 15,000-yuan insurance policy(保险单), no matter how much they buy. Even when they ask for a slice of pork, they can also get the insurance."Gu Linlin is manager of a grocery store in Sichuan, southwest China. He says his store is providing customers with Food Security Liability¹ Insurance, the first of its kind in the city. It aims to eliminate(去掉,清除) customers' worries about food safety. But is the insurance really accomplishing its goal?
    "We give customers a membership² card. When they pay for pork in our shop, the information will be recorded on their membership card. For example, the exact time that they buy the pork. The insurance pay-out is being issued to customers in the event that they become sick after eating pork bought in the our store."Apart from the insurance, customers can trace the production history of the pork and even know who raised the pig.
    It was Gu Linlin's idea to offer free insurance to customers who bought pork. He is not a veteran businessman, but a recent college graduate.
    "I am a college graduate of Southeast University in Jiangsu Province. This is the deputy³ manger of our shop, Lei Tao. He graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China."So far, there are only three grocery stores in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, where more than 80 percent of the staff are college graduates.
    Lei Tao says he had to think hard before accepting a job offer from the grocery store to sell pork and vegetables.
    "My family opposed my choice of selling pork when I graduated from college. They thought after so many years of study, I should find a stable job after graduation. But I still stuck to my choice, as I believe I can bring innovation⁴ to the industry."Because of fierce competition in the job market in recent years, more college graduate students have turned to jobs that are traditionally considered less valued.
    Premier(总理) Wen Jiabao recently encouraged university graduates to start their own businesses, as the country is facing serious employment challenges. He said the government could normally create job opportunities for altogether 9 million people a year. But university graduates alone are more than 6 million.
    Statistics⁵ indicate that the number of Chinese university graduates will reach an all-time high of 6.3 million this year, posing⁶ a grave challenge for the country's employment.
    For CRI, I am Zhang Wan⁷.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 liability   

n.责任[pl.]负债，债务，不利条件

参考例句：

• Bad pronunciation is a liability in being a narrator.不良的发音是做解说员的不利条件。
• Because of his injury ,Tom was just a liability to the team.汤姆的伤使他成为全队的累赘。

2 membership   

n.成员资格，会员全体，从属关系

参考例句：

• I must renew my membership of the sailing club.我必须延续我的航海俱乐部会员的资格。
• He made up his mind to apply for membership in the Party.他决心申请入党。

3 deputy   

n.代理人，代表，副职；adj.代理的，副的

参考例句：

• John will act as a deputy for me during my absence.我离开期间，约翰将代理我的职务。
• She is the deputy headmistress of the school.她是那所学校的代理校长。

4 innovation   

n.改革，革新，新观念，新方法，新发明

参考例句：

• There are all sorts of possibilities for technical innovation.技术革新的门道很多。
• An enterprise should encourage innovation.企业应鼓励创新。

5 statistics   

n.统计，统计数字，统计学

参考例句：

• We have statistics for the last year.我们有去年的统计资料。
• Statistics is taught in many colleges.许多大学都教授统计学。

6 posing   

n. 摆架式 名词pose的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The model was posing carefully. 这位模特儿在认真地摆着姿势。
• She is always posing. 她总是装腔作势。

7 wan   

(wide area network)广域网

参考例句：

• The shared connection can be an Ethernet,wireless LAN,or wireless WAN connection.提供共享的网络连接可以是以太网、无线局域网或无线广域网。