"Nowadays, children only want to be officials and civil servants. Very few of them want to become scientists."

“而现在的孩子，都想当官、当公务员，对科学家有向往的人，少之又少。”

WANG JINGWU, NPC deputy and director of the Guangzhou branch of the People's Bank of China

"Learning English has brought a lot of suffering to Chinese students by making them neglect their normal schooling, dealing a deadly blow to the quality of China's education and causing an unprecedented crisis for the Chinese language."

“学生在学习英语的过程中深受其害，荒废正常的学业，使整个中国的教育质量遭到毁灭性打击，汉语也遭遇前所未有的危机。”

ZHANG SHUHUA, member of the CPPCC National Committee and president of the Information and Intelligence Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

"Personally, I feel very good about the reform of the food and drug regulatory agency. The administrative approval system is finally to be simplified and I hope the approval process for a bottle of Wahaha will not last two or three months like before."

“关于食品药品监管的机构改革，我个人觉得非常好!行政管理审批制度终于有希望简化了。希望今后一瓶娃哈哈别再审批两三个月。”

ZONG QINGHOU, NPC deputy and chairman of beverage giant Hangzhou Wahaha Group

"Do not just ask people to drive their cars less and give up setting off firecrackers, because coal-fired boilers cause more air pollution than cars and firecrackers. It is the government that should do more to control pollution."

“不要光呼吁老百姓少开一天车，不要放炮，一个燃煤锅炉比这些都厉害，真正要行动起来的，是政府。”

ZHANG YINGCEN, NPC deputy and chairman of China Tian Lun Gas Holdings in Zhengzhou, Henan province