Quotable

"In 20 years it is possible that the US president or UK prime minister will be classmates of these Chinese students studying overseas."

Rupert Hoogewerf, publisher of a report by the Hurun Research Institute. The report said 80 percent of China's richest families send their children abroad to be educated.

"We now have a long-term plan to design and introduce a lesbian networking application to help them find friends and possibly true love."

Geng Le, founder of Blued. The former policeman who founded a dating app for gay men said he wanted to liberate fellow homosexuals across the world.

"It's absolutely the right thing to do. Real interest rates have moved up significantly with slowing growth and inflation, which hurts corporate cash flow and balance sheets and threatens to increase nonperforming loans."

Wang Tao, chief China economist at UBS AG in Hong Kong, commenting on the central bank's latest cut in benchmark interest rates.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 11/28/2014 page3)