CHINA DAILY Tuesday, December 17, 2019 | 5 CHINA Directive targets sexual misconduct on campus

Primary, middle school instructors who Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, was fired after one accept gifts also face added punishment of his students alleged that he locked her in his car and sexually By ZOU SHUO similar punishment, said the assaulted her. [email protected] guideline, issued by the ministry Qian’s teaching credentials and and six other departments. academic titles will also be revoked, Teachers who sexually harass Teaching ethics is the most the university said in a Weibo post students will pay a heavy price and important criterion in teacher on Dec 9 after it conducted an education authorities will continue evaluations, and serious offenders investigation into the incident. to expose their misconduct and will be banned from teaching for The student wrote a post on punish them according to relevant life, the guideline said. WeChat that contained recordings regulations, the Ministry of Educa- All students pursuing education of her crying in the car and asking tion said on Monday after teachers degrees should take teaching eth- why Qian wanted to assault her. at two top universities were fired ics courses, and all teachers should She also posted harassing text mes- over sexual misconduct. receive ethics training every year, it sages that he had sent her before Ren Youqun, director of the min- said. and after the incident. istry’s Department of Teacher Edu- An online platform will be built Li Meijin, a professor in criminal cation, said that the ministry has to publicize teachers who have vio- psychology at Chinese People’s Pub- People dressed in Miao ethnic costumes cheer as a high-speed train runs through Xingwen county in zero tolerance for teachers sexually lated teaching ethics, and schools lic Security University, said campus Yibin, Sichuan province, on Monday. HE HAIYANG / FOR CHINA DAILY harassing students and it will should publish hotlines and email sexual harassment has long been a intensify its efforts to hold violators accounts to gather reports of mis- hidden problem in China as most accountable. conduct, it added. students tend to keep things to Teachers should not engage in Peking University recently fired themselves, fearing retaliation inappropriate relationships with an associate professor for profes- from teachers or being stigmatized. High-speed railway further cuts students, and they should not sional misconduct after online “I’m glad to see more students molest or sexually harass students posts alleged that he was having reporting incidents of being sexual- under any circumstances, he said. inappropriate relationships with ly assaulted and they have learned time between Guiyang, Chengdu University teachers who sexually various women at the same time, to protect themselves by collecting harass students or commit aca- some of whom were students. evidence of the incidents,” Li said. demic misconduct will be removed The university also revoked the Schools and education authori- By HUANG ZHILING in Chengdu Chengdu-Guiyang officer with China Railway Cheng- from teaching positions and have teaching credentials and academic ties should deal with these com- and YANG JUN in Guiyang High-Speed Railway du Group Co. “The newly-opened their teaching credentials revoked, title of Feng Renjie, 36, after an plaints seriously and truly show no Yibin-Guiyang section is 372 kilo- according to a new guideline on investigation found that he “serious- tolerance for teachers who engage Chengdu Existing section Ji Fang is a regular traveler from Newly opened section meters long, and the initial operat- Monday. ly violated professional ethics”, it said in sexual misconduct, and law Guiyang, Guizhou province, to ing speed is 250 km/h.” Primary and middle school in a Sina Weibo post on Wednesday. enforcement authorities should Chengdu, Sichuan province. The Chengdu-Guiyang High- teachers who take gifts and money In another case, Qian Feng- also deal with the cases and hold the The middle-aged Sichuan native Speed Railway connects other high- from students and parents will face sheng, 55, an associate professor at teachers accountable, she added. works in Guiyang from Monday to speed railways, including the Friday. Calling it a day on Friday, Sichuan Chengdu-Xi’an and Chengdu- she takes a train heading for Chongqing railways. Chengdu where her home is. On Yibin “It creates a fast passenger trans- Guidelines call for lighter teacher workload Sunday, she arrives in Guiyang by port channel from Sichuan, Chong- train. qing and Guizhou to the Pearl River “It usually takes four hours to Delta and Yangtze River Delta and China has issued a guideline to the General Office of the State Coun- ities to simplify data reporting, pre- reach Chengdu from Guiyang by other developed coastal areas,” reduce the workload of primary and cil. vent repeated reports, improve the train and vice versa,” said Ji, an office Guizhou Zheng said. “It will speed up the middle school teachers so they will Redundant activities should be management of databases with worker. development of tourism and miner- have more time to focus on teaching. consolidated and unnecessary ones advanced technologies including arti- On Monday morning, the Yibin- al resources along the line, which is Existing supervision, inspection, should be canceled, the guideline ficial intelligence and share data Guiyang section of the Chengdu- Yunnan Guiyang of great significance to poverty alle- appraisal, assessment and unneces- said. among departments. Guiyang High-Speed Railway CHINA DAILY viation efforts.” sary educational activities for primary Authorities at all levels should not Education authorities should started operation, marking the open- The railway has two stops in and middle school teachers should be assign irrelevant tasks, such as hold- improve the quality of training for ing of the entire railway. Passengers Dafang and Qianxi counties in Bijie reduced by at least half, said the ing celebrations or attracting invest- teachers to improve their professional on the railway can spend two hours 648 city in Guizhou. Dafang and Qianxi guideline, which was issued by the ment, to primary and middle school skills, but irrelevant training should and 58 minutes reaching Guiyang kilometers are impoverished State-level counties. General Office of the Communist Par- teachers, according to the guideline. not be allowed, it added. from Chengdu and vice versa. Southwest China, which includes ty of China Central Committee and The guideline asks relevant author- ZOU SHUO Length of the Chengdu-Guiyang “It is nice — a new high-speed High-Speed Railway, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou railway from Chengdu to Guiyang which has a top speed of provinces and Chongqing, abounds has cut the travel time by over one 250 kilometers per hour in world-class tourism resources. hour,” Ji said. Sichuan alone boasts sites on the The railway starts in Chengdu, UNESCO World Heritage List such passes Meishan, Leshan and Yibin the railway has a top speed of 250 as Jiuzhaigou, Mount Emei, Leshan University expels 92 foreign students cities in Sichuan, and runs through kilometers per hour. Grand Buddha, Dujiangyan, Mount Weixin and Zhenxiong counties in “The Chengdu-Leshan section of Qingcheng and the giant panda By ZHANG YANGFEI China has become Asia’s largest announced by Renmin University Zhaotong city in Yunnan province the railway started operation at the habitat. [email protected] and the world’s third-largest desti- of China that same month also and Bijie city in Guizhou before end of 2014, and the Leshan-Yibin nation for students looking to included several foreigners. reaching Guiyang. section started in June this year,” Contact the writers at Wuhan University in Hubei study abroad, with about 492,000 According to Changjiang Daily, With a length of 648 kilometers, said Zheng Weitai, an information [email protected] province recently expelled 92 over- overseas students, according to the one of the students expelled by seas students for low grades or Ministry of Education. Hubei University this year was a breaking school rules. However, the ministry noted woman from Ukraine who called The students, who were pursuing that some universities tended to herself Natalia Qiao Liya, a PhD Macao satellites to be launched in 2021 bachelor’s and master’s degrees, focus too much on the quantity of student of modern Chinese litera- were expelled in late November. A international students while over- ture who became famous after small number of them gave up their looking quality. To improve overall going on one of China’s most popu- By ZHAO LEI advantages in science and technolo- studies voluntarily, but the majority education quality, the ministry lar matchmaking reality shows If [email protected] 1,500 gy fields and will boost innovation of them were expelled because of released a document in 2018 that You Are The One in 2014. names endeavors in the Guangdong-Hong poor academic performance and set unified standards to regulate Zhang Haimou, dean of the uni- The first satellites from the Macao Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. violation of school regulations, said the education and examination versity’s international college, told were submitted by over 1,100 Special Administrative Region will participants in a naming con- According to a media report, the Hu Yanchu, dean of the university’s systems of international students. the newspaper that she had been be launched into space in 2021 to test for Macao’s first satellites. State Key Laboratory of Lunar and School of International Education. In addition, in a notice issued too busy appearing on television, carry out scientific missions, Planetary Sciences proposed the Hu added that the faculty had earlier this year, the ministry called which severely affected her studies. according to the China National satellite program to the space warned these students many times for more equal treatment and simi- As a result, she could not successful- Space Administration. ernment’s liaison office in the region administration around October and arrived at the decision to expel lar management standards for ly deliver a doctoral dissertation aft- The administration said in a state- and the space administration. Sev- 2018 and soon received approval. them after careful consideration. international and Chinese stu- er many years in the PhD program. ment on Sunday that the Macao Sci- eral domestic and foreign institutes The satellites’ designs were com- The university has expelled dents, adding that universities and The proportion of international ence 1A and 1B are being designed at including Northwestern Polytechni- pleted and approved in February. groups of international students academic institutions should teach students is an important indicator the State Key Laboratory of Lunar cal University, Harvard University The project team held a naming over the past few years. According Chinese laws and regulations, for evaluating world-class universi- and Planetary Sciences at the Macau in the United States and Swiss Fed- contest in October in Macao in hopes to Hu, 184 students were expelled school rules and safety information ties, but the quality of enrollment is University of Science and Technology. eral Institute of Technology in of “enabling the general public to in 2017, 181 in 2018 and this year so to foreign students throughout equally important, said Xiong Bing- According to the university, the Zurich are involved in the program, share in the delight of Macao’s scien- far the university has already their education. qi, deputy director of the 21st Centu- satellites will work in a near-equato- according to the Macao university. tific development and helping raise expelled 181, including the 92. The ministry further stated that ry Education Research Institute. rial orbit and are expected to moni- Alexis Tam Chon-weng, secretary the communities’ awareness of The university currently has more international students who violate Xiong said expelling unqualified tor the geomagnetic field and space for social affairs and culture in Macao’s scientific endeavors”, the than 2,000 international students. the rules should be dealt with seri- international students should environment of the South Atlantic Macao, said that the satellite pro- Macao university said in a statement. Many of the expelled failed to pay ously, and those who are suspected become routine because “strict Anomaly area and help scientists gram is an opportunity to foster the About 1,500 names were submit- tuition, were frequently absent from of breaking the law should go adherence to education quality can obtain world-class data related to city’s science and technology devel- ted by over 1,100 participants. classes or skipped mandatory school through legal procedures. truly improve the international topics such as geomagnetic reversal, opments, and the SAR government In another development, the activities without permission. Following the notice, Fudan Uni- competitiveness of China’s higher core-mantle interactions and the will give it full support. space administration announced on Hu said it was also an active versity in October expelled 12 grad- education system”. operational safety of spacecraft. Tian Yulong, deputy head of the Sunday that its Macao Center for move to respond to the Ministry of uate students — the majority of The program is supported by the space administration, said the pro- Space Exploration and Science has Education’s call for improving the them foreigners — and the list of Zhou Lihua contributed to Macao government, the central gov- gram will make use of Macao’s been established at the university. quality of international education. expelled undergraduate students this story. ‘Trapped’ voted word of 2019 across Taiwan Straits

TAIPEI — More than 12 million Chi- Want Daily, Fujian-based Sun News out of the trap and into a new begin- since 2008. Last year’s choice was the nese mainland and Taiwan netizens and online news website Sina. ning,” he said. character “wang”, or expectation. have picked the Chinese character “Kun” beat 35 other characters rec- “The more difficult the current situ- The event reminded people across the “kun”, meaning trapped, as the word ommended by participants across the ation becomes, the more necessary it Straits of the cultural roots they share, of the year for 2019, expecting cross- Taiwan Straits. The choice showed is for us to stay on the right track,” said said Lin Gu-fang, chief of Taipei Lecture Straits relations to break free from the that people on both sides have a clear Huang Yubin, president and editor-in- Hall, an institute promoting traditional Taiwan question trap next year. understanding of the difficulties cur- chief of Sun News, addressing the cer- Chinese culture, including calligraphy. The character won more than 1 mil- rently facing cross-Straits relations, emony via video message. “I believe “As long as we all use Chinese char- lion votes out of about 12 million in an said Wang Cho-chung, president of people chose the word ‘trapped’ not acters, the essential bond across the online poll from Nov 29 to Dec 12, Tai- China Times and Want Daily, at the only to express their feelings about Straits remains, and the proof that we wan-based Want Daily announced in announcing ceremony on Friday. 2019 but also to express an aspiration have the same origin is there,” Lin said. Taipei last week. The poll was jointly “Let us hope that next year, we will to break out of the current situation.” The character “kun”, meaning trapped, is voted word of 2019 hosted by organizations including be able to bring cross-Straits relations The event has been held annually XINHUA across Taiwan Straits. JIN LIWANG / XINHUA