英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0926 - 北京人爱打的？

Topic 1 Child abuse in China Recently, a group of pictures have been spreading quickly on the Internet. A young father abused his child and now large bruises and swollen skin are so obvious on the boy's body that people wonder what on earth has made the father so cruel to his child.

How big of a problem is child abuse in China? Is it getting worse?

Topic 2 Should China legalize surrogacy?

An illicit surrogacy trade is burgeoning in the Chinese capital Beijing, where would-be parents can pay surrogate mothers as much as 400,000 yuan to carry their child and in China, around 10,000 babies are delivered by their surrogates.

How big of a market is there?

Topic 3 What Kind of Talk Show Does China Want?

Many Chinese talk show fans would love to pay hundreds of yuan to hear transsexual dancer and television celebrity Jin Xing lash out.

Having officially become a talk show host, Jin Xing accomplished the first round of ten shows at the People's Grand Theater in Shanghai which has proven to be captivating.

What's the landscape of talk shows in China now?

Topic 4 Taxi fares in Beijing cheap?

An international survey has found that passengers in Beijing pay significantly cheaper taxi fares compared with other major international cities—a fact that could spell trouble for the city's air pollution.

According to a survey that taxi web portal rechner.de conducted for Germany Economic Weekly, passengers in Tokyo are paying the most expensive taxi fares in the world, while Beijing offers the cheapest among international cities.

Is it really cheap to take a taxi in Beijing?

Topic 5 Bloody advice for women to become strong A female-virtue class in South China's Guangdong province says that in order to succeed in the business world women have to cut off their breasts and remove their wombs.

The class now has many wondering do women have to give up all their feminine features to accomplish something?

Is it easy for women to accomplish something?