The poor can't afford the universities is because the fee is too low?

On November 27th, the president of Guanghua Management School (Beijing University) Zhang Weiying, attend the "2007 China Guangda high-end Economic Forum" in Zhengzhou. He said, the reason why the poor can not afford to go to university in China is because the fee is too low. "Studying in Beijing University as an undergraduate student cost 20,000 yuan per year, the tuition fee is about 4,000 yuan, and the remaining 16,000 yuan is subsidized by the government. It is the poor subsidizing the rich. I think a really good system is that you can charge highly, but you would spent 80 percent in scholarships, only in this way can the poor afford the universities."　
　
As a well-known economist, Professor Zhang Weiying's idea of using this economic means to put the solutions is a bit too ridiculous in my opinion. In the present China, it is not implemented. Professor Zhang's prescription obviously detached from the national conditions, is divorced from the reality.

To achieve the ideal purpose of Professor Zhang, there must be an important premise- there should be sufficient rich people to bear the high tuition fees, at the same time, we should make sure that all the poor students can receive adequate subsidies. That is to say, China should have sufficient proportion of high-income groups. For example, in the face of high fares, more than 50 per cent of students' families can easily bear the high tuition, 20 to 30 percent of them can barely bear, and the remaining 20 to 30 percent of the students complete their studies through various subsidies. Only in a ratio like this is there a possibility of Pro.Zhang's "really good system".

However, the current level of our national income is far unable to bear a heavier burden of education. Statistics show that the poverty ratio in national key institutions exceeds 20% currently, and it is as high as 35 percent in study fields like agriculture, forestry, Normal and underdeveloped areas in West China Universities. What’s more, the "poor students" I am referring here, is basically the one who rely on relief, grants and other financial support to continue their studies and does not include other students who are facing economic difficulties. If the tuition increase five-fold, then what would the ratio be? 50%? 60% ? 70%? or even more? How many families are able to afford school fees?

Apparently, in the actual circumstances of national income (many of the income statistics are "averaged" by the wealthy) with such a large low-income groups in China, we can only increase the "fair distribution of the first" to solve the problem, that is to say, lower the tuition fee as much as possible, because only in this way can the majority of students' families bear the cost. If divorced from the reality of national income, just one-sided emphasis on use of economic means to solve the problem of poor students going to school might arouse the suspicion of the speaker's motivation - after all, the first beneficiary of the increasing tuition is the university, not others.

Who killed the young pregnant woman?

November 21, because a Hunan man Zhijun Xiao refused to sign the permission for doing a Caesarean section, it led his 22-year-old pregnant wife and his child died. In Chinese society, it caused enormous repercussions. Can a person's life depends on another person's signature ? Should the hospital ignore legal restrictions to heal the sick? Is there any problem with the current medical legal system ? What is the reason caused two people died in front of more than 30 medical staff?

At 16:00 on November 21, a 41-week pregnant woman Li-Yun Li was in a critical condition because of dystocia. Her husband Zhijun Xiao sent her to Chaoyang Hospital. Li-Yun Li was diagnosed as "full-term pregnancy, severe pneumonia, acute respiratory failure, acute heart failure," and an immediate need for Caesarean section. According to the rules, any surgery, patients or their families must be agreed for the signing. As Li-Yun Li has been in a coma, Zhijun Xiao become the only person entitled to a signature. When the doctor passed the surgery agreement to Zhijun Xiao, an unexpected situation emerged - Zhijun Xiao rejected. The reason he rejected was that "the only job you should do is trying to cure her disease, she will be fine!" "We are here for just a cold, not for a birth to a child, she won't do that in a month." "My wife is just suffering a cold, just give her some medicine", "Don't do the surgery, otherwise we will not be able to have a second child in the future."

After 3-hour-long argument between the husband and the hospital, the tragedy is inevitable. At 7:20PM, the 22-year-old Li-Yun Li died because of a serious respiratory, heart and lung failure. According to the report posted by on November 23, during the three hours, despite numerous doctor's earnest advice, Zhijun Xiao ignored until the doctors announced his wife's deadth.

It is anomal that Zhijun Xiao refused to sign, but also, it is a certain inevitable. The fact is that Zhijun Xiao is very poor. He was wearing a dark blue old T-shirt, shoes full of mud, he was wearing a huge cheap electronic watches on his wrists. He said that it is his wife's desire going to Beijing as "she said it would be easier to find a job in big city." When they firstly arrived in Beijing last December, he worked as a security with a 750 yuan monthly wage. This year, in November, he went to a hotel in west Beijing washing dishes, the monthly wage is 700 yuan. "No savings, spend a whole." Xiao said even his wife's pregnant, she has never been seen with specialized maternity hospitals. Just because his wife's flu, they visited two small clinics. The pressure of life make them drift as a wireless kite in the city. Their hearts are full of frustration and despair for living in a big city with a low income. Facing the unexpected pressure, the economic distress, the loss feelings of social care, the trouble couples almost crumble, which lead a greater tragedy finally.

In my opinion, just use the words like "selfish", "insensitive", "the lack of medical knowledge" to condemn Xiao is obviously not enough. No one can be so relentless is front of the imminent loss of his wife and child. So, why Xiao refused to sign? The answer seems cruel and simple. Xiao said: "My wife is just suffering from a flu, drug treatment will make her better, and they can give the birth to their children by themselves. I would also like to have a second child in the future. If I sign, the hospital would not give her pills. I have no money." Obviously, Xiao's fear of poverty made his blindly resistance, and ultimately let the young pregnant woman lose her life.

On the other side, just imagine, if the hospital is more humanitarian and to do everything possible to work on, perhaps the pregnant women would not be killed. "If families do not signed, not surgery." If everyone mechanical implementates the rules, or unwilling to play a responsibility, this kind of tragedy will surely be difficult to avoid. I think, this should be the most profound warning of this case.