Quotable

"For the past 30 years I have devoted my life to judicial expertise. Over the next 30 years I am going to expose wrongful judgments."

Wang Xuemei, a former forensic doctor with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, who quit her job in June, quoted by China Business News. Early in August, Wang, referring to her resignation from the Chinese Forensic Medicine Association, questioned its forensic judgment of a case in 2010 in which a university student fell from a subway platform in Beijing and was electrocuted.

"Based on our country's present pace of economic growth, even if it's as low as 6 percent a year, by 2030 China could have a mechanism that enables people to work four days a week and rest the other three."

Wang Qiyan, a professor of leisure economy at Renmin University of China, quoted by Yanzhao Metropolis Daily. Wang said leisure industries could provide half of the country's GDP growth by 2030. By then, he said, half of people's incomes would be spent on leisure and consumption.

"Anything inhumane that goes against the Constitution and violates human rights, no matter in what form, should never be allowed to happen in China again. Otherwise, people's happiness and national prosperity will be out of the question."

Chen Xiaolu, son of Marshal Chen Yi, former vice-premier, in a statement apologizing to people he harmed during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76). The former Red Guard says he made the apology to cleanse his soul, and for social progress and the nation's future.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 08/30/2013 page3)