Topic 1: SAPPRFT Bans scandalized celebsChina's top media regulator has called on TV stations to carefully reconsider hiring stars who have beencaught up in various scandals, after a fistful of big names in the entertainment industry were nabbed indr...
Topic1 Hospital Refuse Patients with Bad HistoryRecently, several doctors make public statement that they won't treat the patients who hurt the medical staffs until the matters get a reasonable solution. This retaliatory action sparks controversy on...
Topic 1-The removal of National Holiday Office after 14 yearsThe National Holiday Office has been a subject of criticism for years. Its decisions, for example, to 'pick-n-mix' all national holidays with weekends and abolish the 'May First golden week...
Topic1 Professor Gives Speech to A Sleeping AudiencePhotos of students snoozing during a lecture given by the 93-year-old professor Wu Liangyong at the Great Hall of the People go viral on the internet. Are the students the only group who needs to be...
Topic1 China revises anti-air pollution lawIllegal outdoor barbecues might get you fines of up to 2,000 yuan. That's according to a revised draft of China's Law on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution China has recently released for pu...
Topic1 How to Avoid Being Duped in Broken Vase ScamsPeople in China who attempt to profit through Peng Ci, or extorting money from a driver through creating a traffic accident, may now find the practice more difficult. A court in the eastern city of...
Topic1 Teachers on strike in Hubei cityTeacher's Day this year hasn't been uneventful for a major high school in central China's Hubei Province. More than 70 teachers at the Xiaogan High School in Xiaogan city went on strike since Tuesday for the sch...
Topic1 China boasts second-largest obese population in the worldObesity is increasing causing concerns in China as its economy develops. China actually is home to the second-largest population of obese people in the world, just behind the United Stat...
Topic1 Gaokao Reform Plan ReleasedOn Sept 4, the State Council issued The Implementation Opinions on Deepening the reform of Examination and Enrollment System关于深化考试招生制度改革的实施意见, which marks a new round reform of exami...
Topic 1 Should employee benefits be cut to fight corruptionAn editorial on the government-run newspaper People's Daily has blamed civil servants' benefit cutbacks on some officials' overreaction to the crackdown on corruption. The editorial says that...
Topic1 Breast Cancer Grows FastThe breast cancer rate in Beijing has increased by 90% in the past two decades, according to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital's Breast Center. In recent years, breast cancer has become one of the biggest health...
Topic 1: School TragedyOn the first day of the new semester, a man wielding a knife killed three students and one teacher. He also managed to injure 5 other students before jumping to his death from the fifth floor of the school. What happened? Why d...
Topic1 Opinions split on relevance of cord bloodThere are always two opinions on storing cord blood. Some experts believe that the chance of a person to use his or her cord blood for blood diseases is too few while the cost is high. Others argue that...
Topic1 Shanghai first year students' new textbook deleted all Chinese poemsThe new semester is coming, and some Shanghai parents find that: the new first grade Chinese textbook has removed all eight classical poems from the old version, and reduced t...
Topic1 School Bus UnusedToday the new semester begins. In rural areas, many kids need to take a bus to school. We all know the shortage of qualified school buses in rural schools. However, in Zhejiang, 52 brand-new school buses have been unused for m...
