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“From 1999 to 2010, Peking University(PKU) has produced 79 billionaires, and the most of all universities in China for three years in a row,” said PKU President Zhou Qifeng.
After PKU on the list is Tsinghua
University with 70 billionaires and Zhejiang University with 66. These numbers come from a list called 2011 China’s List of Billionaire-producing Universities, released by the China University Alumni Association, an institution which evaluates universities with different standards. This time, PKU is ranked in first place in the number of the rich the universities have nurtured, and PKU leaders are quite happy about the result.
Besides PKU, many MBA and EMBA
classes place a lot of emphasis on the number of the rich they produce. It’s a trend the social status of a university is in accordance with the number of billionaires that have graduated from it.
Ever since the list was released, there has been heated debate about whether nurturing billionaires should be a function of today’s universities.
Supporters of the idea think producing business elites does not contradict producing academic masters and it should be an important function of today’s universities.
On the other hand, opponents think the real mission of universities should be preserving human civilization rather than focusing on financial issues. Taking the number of billionaires as an index for evaluating universities is misleading. Important function
Zhou Qifeng (The Beijing News): I’m
very happy that PKU not only nurtures academic masters but also high-caliber personnel in the business world. Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.com, one of the most frequently used search engines in China, graduated from PKU and his total worth has now reached$9.4 billion. I’m so proud.
I hope outstanding entrepreneurs who
graduated from PKU remember their responsibilities and are pioneers in charity and social welfare while pursuing financial benefits.
Cai Yanhou (cuaa.net): The number of
billionaires who graduated from PKU demonstrates it’s a top-notch university in China and the social status PKU has in Chinese society isn’t surpassed by other universities.
During the era of economic globalization, all universities in China should learn from PKU and try their best to produce the most outstanding future business personnel.
Chen Si (Yangcheng Evening News):
Ever since the implementation of Chinese reform and opening-up policy, all Chinese universities have produced not only scientific masters and political leaders but also many millionaires and billionaires.
People with a college background have a bigger chance of becoming powers in the business world after graduation. In this sense, knowledge has really become power. If one university can nurture people that influence the world economy, the university is bound to be considered first-class in the world. Besides, rich alumni have become the main donors to their alma maters, which has helped a lot in better development of universities.
We can see the capacity to create future billionaires is not contradictory to cultivating future scientists. Turning students into future billionaires has become one of the main functions of China’s universities.
Deng Ziqing (www.chinanews.com):
From my point of view, it’s quite unfair to criticize PKU’s showing off the number of
billionaires it has produced during the past decade.
First, since ancient times, people have paid a lot of attention to making money. And one of the main functions of learning is to improve one’s financial status. In today’s world, in particular, the power of money has become a leading force in society. In this context, it’s totally Ok for PKU to tell the world proudly it has cultivated the most billionaires. It’s totally the same for a university to brag about the number of billionaires it has produced as it is to tell people the number of successful politicians it nurtured. There is nothing wrong with it. After all, society is ruled by economic power and political power, in the past, at present and in the future.
Second, to a certain extent, amount of wealth is well related to one’s personal capability. Among those 79 billionaires, many are also masters in their respective fields. For instance, Robin Li is a widely recognized master in the field of search engine technology, while Li Ning was a master in gymnastics. Therefore, they are both business powers as well as masters that PKU has cultivated. PKU has the right to be extremely proud of them.
Finally, making a show of these bil
lionaires is not the original purpose of PKU. Just as its president Zhou Qifeng said, all businessmen alumni should remember the responsibility of being students of PKU and become pioneers in social welfare while pursuing economic benefits. Seen from this point of view, we can learn PKU’s action is momentum as well as pressure on those extremely successful and rich entrepreneurs. PKU wants them to realize a common spirit the university has advocated ever since its foundation by rewarding society.
Instead of criticizing them, it’s more
meaningful to learn from successful PKU graduates.
Wan Xiaoyang (news.ifeng.com): PKU
can be No.1 in terms of cultivating powers in business, it can also be No.1 in creating masters.
There are many kinds of high-caliber personnel in the world, such as academic masters and elites in the business world. It’s a great success to have cultivated many of the former kind, and also a success to have created many of the latter. Intellectually and materially successfully, they both realize values in life with what college education has given them and are important powers for propelling social progress and development.
If PKU can rank first on a list as far as the
number of billionaires is concerned, it may also rank first in terms of masters and philanthropists tomorrow. That’s the most sincere hope of their alma mater.
Misleading standard
Zhao He (www.chinacourt.org):
Evaluating a university shouldn’t be based on the number of billionaires it has produced. Even though PKU ranks first on the list, it doesn’t show how successful the university is since the goal of a university should be cultivating masters in different fields rather than magnates.
Currently, the directions of China’s college education are still ambiguous. Gaining fame and economic benefits has begun to invade the pure land of college campus.
Magnates are not cultivated in universities but trained in the real business world. But masters and high-caliber personnel with greater social responsibility can be cultivated by universities. I hope universities don’t take nurturing successes in business as their pride
and rich people shouldn’t feel superior to others just because they graduated from famous universities. What’s more important is what they can do for the country and society with what they achieve.
Li Zhiqiang (news.163.com): From
the conventions of the world, first-class universities are termed so because they have nurtured many outstanding scientists, litterateurs, educationists, philosophers and poets rather than successful politicians and business magnates.
The real honor and pride of a university should be the number of masters it has produced that can push forward academic development and artistic creation. It’s the natural responsibility and mission of universities to carry forward the spirit of leading society.
Foreign or domestic, evaluating a university should be based on the contributions it has made in preserving the human spirit and civilization.
Superior universities in the world, such as Oxford and Harvard, have more than 20 Nobel Prize winners and academic masters of world-class status. What about us? On the campus, the essence of college education is deteriorating. What should we rely on to preserve the spiritual essence of Chinese society in the future? Is it possible to rely on sucessful business alumni to do that? Absolutely not.
Shi Yanping (blog.qq.com): It is a
contribution of PKU to have nurtured so many billionaires during the past decade. But society doesn’t function only because of a wealthy and elite class. Only if all industries and classes are well organized will a stable society be built. For instance, some rich people go for real estate management, but the premise is houses are built by professional engineers. The former could be billionaires but the latter may be only normal people. PKU shouldn’t grade the social contributions these two types of people make to society according to the money they make and shouldn’t feel prouder of the former than of the latter.
It’s not wrong to cultivate future mag
nates, but PKU shouldn’t take that as its goal. The real goal of universities should be educating high-caliber personnel with greater social responsibility and social ideals. If PKU has turned into a magnate-manufacturing factory rather than nurturing students to promote progress in society, it has gone too far from its public responsibility and become the slave of wealth.
Yang Hongbing (www.dzwww.com):
Instead of being factories for manufacturing billionaires, world-class universities should be bases for making scientific breakthroughs, for preserving human civilization, for improving students’ souls and for creative ideas.
In the eyes of the people, first-class uni
versities should be graded on the number of international masters they have produced and the scientific achievements and social contributions they have made, rather than the number of billionaires they have produced, because universities should be the public resources of all of society.
After PKU on the list is Tsinghua
University with 70 billionaires and Zhejiang University with 66. These numbers come from a list called 2011 China’s List of Billionaire-producing Universities, released by the China University Alumni Association, an institution which evaluates universities with different standards. This time, PKU is ranked in first place in the number of the rich the universities have nurtured, and PKU leaders are quite happy about the result.
Besides PKU, many MBA and EMBA
classes place a lot of emphasis on the number of the rich they produce. It’s a trend the social status of a university is in accordance with the number of billionaires that have graduated from it.
Ever since the list was released, there has been heated debate about whether nurturing billionaires should be a function of today’s universities.
Supporters of the idea think producing business elites does not contradict producing academic masters and it should be an important function of today’s universities.
On the other hand, opponents think the real mission of universities should be preserving human civilization rather than focusing on financial issues. Taking the number of billionaires as an index for evaluating universities is misleading. Important function
Zhou Qifeng (The Beijing News): I’m
very happy that PKU not only nurtures academic masters but also high-caliber personnel in the business world. Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.com, one of the most frequently used search engines in China, graduated from PKU and his total worth has now reached$9.4 billion. I’m so proud.
I hope outstanding entrepreneurs who
graduated from PKU remember their responsibilities and are pioneers in charity and social welfare while pursuing financial benefits.
Cai Yanhou (cuaa.net): The number of
billionaires who graduated from PKU demonstrates it’s a top-notch university in China and the social status PKU has in Chinese society isn’t surpassed by other universities.
During the era of economic globalization, all universities in China should learn from PKU and try their best to produce the most outstanding future business personnel.
Chen Si (Yangcheng Evening News):
Ever since the implementation of Chinese reform and opening-up policy, all Chinese universities have produced not only scientific masters and political leaders but also many millionaires and billionaires.
People with a college background have a bigger chance of becoming powers in the business world after graduation. In this sense, knowledge has really become power. If one university can nurture people that influence the world economy, the university is bound to be considered first-class in the world. Besides, rich alumni have become the main donors to their alma maters, which has helped a lot in better development of universities.
We can see the capacity to create future billionaires is not contradictory to cultivating future scientists. Turning students into future billionaires has become one of the main functions of China’s universities.
Deng Ziqing (www.chinanews.com):
From my point of view, it’s quite unfair to criticize PKU’s showing off the number of
billionaires it has produced during the past decade.
First, since ancient times, people have paid a lot of attention to making money. And one of the main functions of learning is to improve one’s financial status. In today’s world, in particular, the power of money has become a leading force in society. In this context, it’s totally Ok for PKU to tell the world proudly it has cultivated the most billionaires. It’s totally the same for a university to brag about the number of billionaires it has produced as it is to tell people the number of successful politicians it nurtured. There is nothing wrong with it. After all, society is ruled by economic power and political power, in the past, at present and in the future.
Second, to a certain extent, amount of wealth is well related to one’s personal capability. Among those 79 billionaires, many are also masters in their respective fields. For instance, Robin Li is a widely recognized master in the field of search engine technology, while Li Ning was a master in gymnastics. Therefore, they are both business powers as well as masters that PKU has cultivated. PKU has the right to be extremely proud of them.
Finally, making a show of these bil
lionaires is not the original purpose of PKU. Just as its president Zhou Qifeng said, all businessmen alumni should remember the responsibility of being students of PKU and become pioneers in social welfare while pursuing economic benefits. Seen from this point of view, we can learn PKU’s action is momentum as well as pressure on those extremely successful and rich entrepreneurs. PKU wants them to realize a common spirit the university has advocated ever since its foundation by rewarding society.
Instead of criticizing them, it’s more
meaningful to learn from successful PKU graduates.
Wan Xiaoyang (news.ifeng.com): PKU
can be No.1 in terms of cultivating powers in business, it can also be No.1 in creating masters.
There are many kinds of high-caliber personnel in the world, such as academic masters and elites in the business world. It’s a great success to have cultivated many of the former kind, and also a success to have created many of the latter. Intellectually and materially successfully, they both realize values in life with what college education has given them and are important powers for propelling social progress and development.
If PKU can rank first on a list as far as the
number of billionaires is concerned, it may also rank first in terms of masters and philanthropists tomorrow. That’s the most sincere hope of their alma mater.
Misleading standard
Zhao He (www.chinacourt.org):
Evaluating a university shouldn’t be based on the number of billionaires it has produced. Even though PKU ranks first on the list, it doesn’t show how successful the university is since the goal of a university should be cultivating masters in different fields rather than magnates.
Currently, the directions of China’s college education are still ambiguous. Gaining fame and economic benefits has begun to invade the pure land of college campus.
Magnates are not cultivated in universities but trained in the real business world. But masters and high-caliber personnel with greater social responsibility can be cultivated by universities. I hope universities don’t take nurturing successes in business as their pride
and rich people shouldn’t feel superior to others just because they graduated from famous universities. What’s more important is what they can do for the country and society with what they achieve.
Li Zhiqiang (news.163.com): From
the conventions of the world, first-class universities are termed so because they have nurtured many outstanding scientists, litterateurs, educationists, philosophers and poets rather than successful politicians and business magnates.
The real honor and pride of a university should be the number of masters it has produced that can push forward academic development and artistic creation. It’s the natural responsibility and mission of universities to carry forward the spirit of leading society.
Foreign or domestic, evaluating a university should be based on the contributions it has made in preserving the human spirit and civilization.
Superior universities in the world, such as Oxford and Harvard, have more than 20 Nobel Prize winners and academic masters of world-class status. What about us? On the campus, the essence of college education is deteriorating. What should we rely on to preserve the spiritual essence of Chinese society in the future? Is it possible to rely on sucessful business alumni to do that? Absolutely not.
Shi Yanping (blog.qq.com): It is a
contribution of PKU to have nurtured so many billionaires during the past decade. But society doesn’t function only because of a wealthy and elite class. Only if all industries and classes are well organized will a stable society be built. For instance, some rich people go for real estate management, but the premise is houses are built by professional engineers. The former could be billionaires but the latter may be only normal people. PKU shouldn’t grade the social contributions these two types of people make to society according to the money they make and shouldn’t feel prouder of the former than of the latter.
It’s not wrong to cultivate future mag
nates, but PKU shouldn’t take that as its goal. The real goal of universities should be educating high-caliber personnel with greater social responsibility and social ideals. If PKU has turned into a magnate-manufacturing factory rather than nurturing students to promote progress in society, it has gone too far from its public responsibility and become the slave of wealth.
Yang Hongbing (www.dzwww.com):
Instead of being factories for manufacturing billionaires, world-class universities should be bases for making scientific breakthroughs, for preserving human civilization, for improving students’ souls and for creative ideas.
In the eyes of the people, first-class uni
versities should be graded on the number of international masters they have produced and the scientific achievements and social contributions they have made, rather than the number of billionaires they have produced, because universities should be the public resources of all of society.