When Zhang Baoqing (张保庆) retired from his position as deputy minister at the Ministry of Education in China, he was interviewed by China Youth Daily (November 14, 2005). From that interview, this particular piece of Q&A stood out:
Reporter: I have read your poetry collections. Over the last ten years, your poetry seemed to contain a strand of sadness and anxiety. Here are the most memorable lines: “The worst can only be celery and yam; it is either personal abjectness or national worries.”
Zhang: Insofar as my experience of growing up went, I had no great background and I had no grand strategy. It was the Party which nurtured me. I am deeply grateful to our Party and our nation. And that is why I have this deep sense of worry.
The biggest problem that China faces is that the policies are not being implemented. The policies decided in Zhongnanhai sometimes do not get out of Zhongnanhai. For example, the matter of solving the loan problems for hardship students was simply ignored by the lower echelons. If even such a policy is not implemented, what about anything else?
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