1 | To improve the current situation, we must not allow officials to neglect their duties. | |
2 | It will also require the repeal of Byzantine regulation, burdensome taxes and policies that force a large fraction of the population to feed at the public trough. | |
3 | And they are returning with a mission: to shake up China' s scientific culture of cronyism and mediocrity, often cited as its biggest impediment to scientific achievement. | |
4 | 如果说有什么不同,那就是这种不满随着改革计划的出炉和官员的混蛋作风而越来越强烈。毫无疑问,官僚阶级的尸位素餐是这个国家贫穷落后的主要原因。 If anything, it has grown louder as reform plans take shape and the rascal ways of the political class are unmistakably identified as the main reason for the lack of prosperity. | |
5 | Who can help the under-performing, over-compensated chief executive fighting to survive intrusive journalists, independent shareholders and ambitious vice-presidents who could do a better job? |