英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable - 裸体浴场之辩

Topic1 Malnutrition of Rural KidsIn China, kids in rural areas are more likely to suffer malnutrition than children in urban areas. The situation in impoverished regions is even worse, according to the country's health authorities.

How serious is the problem?

Topic2 Will Joint Ownership Housing Help the Less Well-off?

As real estate prices keep rising, local governments across China have made it a priority to address the housing difficulty of middle- and low-income families.

One of the innovative localized approaches is shared ownership between the government and buyers, where the government pays part of housing costs for individuals and both own the apartment together according to their contribution.

Such government-subsidized homes are being encouraged nationwide.

What are joint ownerships? What does it entail?

Topic3 Museum collections are in poor preservationThe State Cultural Relic Bureau has carried out a 3-year-long campaign to investigate the conservation of cultural relics stored in state-owned entities.

According to the investigation, more than half of the relics in China's cultural institutions are not being well preserved, yet only five percent of the funding for museums has been used for relicpreservation work.

We would think that museums and cultural entities are the best examples of relics protection. Why is this investigation pointing otherwise?

Topic4 Should China Offer More Training Institutions for Actors-to-be?

Each February, China witnesses a rush of applications for performing arts schools, with tens of thousands of students taking exams and demonstrating their performance skills in a process known in Chinese as yikao.

Some of them might become the country's future Robert De Niro or Natalie Portman.

But competition is really tough for prospective performing arts students, and applications far exceed available places. In some cases, one out of every 170 applicants can get the spot.

Do the wannabe stars have to go through such a fierce battle?

How hard it is to be enrolled by a performing arts school?

Topic5 Tomb Raiders in ChinaTomb raider in many Chinese people's eyes is a both mysterious and familiar profession. Thanks to popular online novels, millions of readers in the country have the general idea of how these people do their job. However, tomb raiders not only exist in books or ancient times, but also in real life.

According to archeologists, there are more than 100 thousand tomb raiders in China.

How serious is the problem of tomb robbing?

Topic6 Nude Beach in SanyaSanya city management workers began to persuade nudists to leave the Dadonghai public beach and a 58 years old male nudist was sentenced to five days ofcustody after refusing to leave, fuelling an already ongoing discussion of whether nudists should have their way.

Is there a problem with people displaying naked bodies in public, both socially and legally?