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China Commentary Wrap: Hot Water, Official Modesty, Nannies' Salaries


A round-up of commentary appearing in the Chinese press over the past week.

April 12, 2012
Compiled by Zhu Na

 

 
U.S. Ambassador’s Modest Accommodation - Shenzhen Evening News
When Gary Faye Locke attended the Boao Forum for Asia, he couldn’t afford to stay at the five-star hotel that the conference organizers had designated for accommodation. He chose a cheaper one.
The point isn’t that Locke can’t afford five-star hotels but that the U.S. government travel spending standards are strictly enforced.
Locke did not dare to go one step beyond the prescribed spending limit.
What is it about the U.S.’s regulations that makes them so widely respected?

 
Telecom Companies’ Failure to Protect Personal Information - Oriental Morning Post   
Telecommunications companies have been accused of selling personal data in numerous reports since 2009. On this evidence, we can’t rely on the companies’ "conscience" to put an end to the practice.
China has no law on the protection of personal information. The country needs one.

 
Rising Prices hit the Poor Hardest - Yangtse Evening News
The prices of milk powder, cooking oil, fast food, shampoo and other consumer goods have been rising recently.  
In the words of one online commentator, "house prices are the consumer price index of the rich, stock prices are the CPI of the middle class and CPI is the CPI of the poor".
The poor can survive without driving, but not without cooking oil; they can live without visiting the spa, but not without shampoo.
The rising prices shown in the CPI are most burdensome for low-income groups.

 
Nannies Earning More than Doctors - China Youth Daily
The best paid nannies can earn more than 15,000 yuan a month looking after babies in Shanghai and Beijing, according to one recent report in the Beijing News.
“This is ordinary domestic work that can’t be considered as an occupation, why are the wages higher than for a doctor?” wrote the author of the report.
That seems like prejudice.
Private enterprises’ former employees get lower pensions than retired civil servants even though their contributions to the country are the same.
We think that all retired employees should be treated equally and migrant workers and nannies have the same right to high salaries as anyone else.

 
Lesson for Beijing's Scolding Water Pool Beijing Times
We ought to learn from the case of 27-year-old Yang Erjing, who died from the burns that she sustained when she fell through the pavement into a pool of scorching hot water.
It’s still not clear who was responsible for the leaking pipes beneath the pavement.
Anyone walking in the street could have suffered the same fate at Yang. There are many public facilities in the city and the slightest neglect can provoke an accident.

 

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