Sound Bites

"Nowadays, children only want to be officials and civil servants. Very few of them want to become scientists."

WANG JINGWU, NPC deputy and director of the Guangzhou branch of the People's Bank of China

"Learning English has brought a lot of suffering to Chinese students by making them neglect their normal schooling, dealing a deadly blow to the quality of China's education and causing an unprecedented crisis for the Chinese language."