研究揭示公众对高考配额制不满程度

"Professor Qin and Mr Buchanan – who, in an unusual twist, received funding from a Chinese government agency"?? There's nothing unusual about investigators–foreign and domestic–receiving funding from a Chinese government agencies. The Chinese are the most surveyed people on earth. Says says author Jeff J. Brown, "My Beijing neighborhood committee and town hall are constantly putting up announcements, inviting groups of people–renters, homeowners, over seventies, women under forty, those with or without medical insurance, retirees–to answer surveys. The CPC is the world’s biggest pollster for a reason: China’s democratic ‘dictatorship of the people’ is highly engaged at the day-to-day, citizen-on-the-street level. I know, because I live in a middle class Chinese community and I question them all the time. I find their government much more responsive and democratic than the dog-and-pony shows back home, and I mean that seriously." With fifty research centers covering two-hundred sixty social disciplines and four-thousand full time PhD researchers, CASS uses questionnaires and grassroots forums, national tours, TV programs, meetings, academic conferences, and local fora to solicit suggestions. Explained one CASS planner[1], “Computers have made huge improvements in collecting and analyzing the information but still, thousands of statisticians, actuaries, database experts and technicians with degrees in urban, rural, agricultural, environmental and economic planning invest thousands of hours interpreting and analyzing this vast trove of data, statistics and information. Needless to say, for a continent-sized country with over a billion citizens, it takes hundreds of thousands of people to develop each Five-Year Plan.” It is no surprise that the Chinese rank their government as the most responsive on earth, nor that 95% of them say their country is heading in the right direction.  [1] Jeff J. Brown, China Rising.