Ugly side of beauty viewed on campus

CHERRY BLOSSOMS are blooming in Central China’s Hubei province. However, in Wuhan University, which is known for its cherry blossom festival, some tourists reportedly behaved badly while on campus sightseeing. Thepaper.cn comments:

A photo was widely spread online showing a visitor shaking a cherry tree violently to make the blossoms fall. There are so many uncivilized tourists every year that Wuhan University publishes photos of them via its official micro blog account.

Further reports show that an illegal trade in prebooked tickets to the university has emerged, which makes it hard for people to book tickets. Many visitors who failed to book tickets had to buy them from the illegal traders at extremely high prices.

Every year, there are always large numbers of complaints from both students disturbed by the cherry blossom viewers and those tourists who fail to get tickets. Every year, Wuhan University vows to solve such problems, but the problems remain unsolved.

That brings us to a long-existing debate: Is it really (kuàidìyuán hángyè jìnrù jīzhì)

A meeting between the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing passed a traffic management regulation on deliverymen using e-bikes in the courier and takeout delivery sectors.

According to the regulation, the authorities proper for Wuhan University to hold the annual cherry blossom festival?

Those supporting it say the university can promote its brand by holding the cherry blossom festival and allowing tourists to enjoy the beautiful scenes on the campus.

However, those opposing it say the university receives about 200,000 visitors at the peak period, four times the number of its students. The chief job of a university is to teach and conduct research. If too many tourists visit the campus, that will interrupt its normal activities.

The university also has to recruit all kinds of resources such as security guards and cleaners for the festival. That money comes from taxpayers.

If the problems cannot be solved, maybe it is time for the university to consider suspending the cherry blossom festival for a year or two.

Restrictive rule for deliverymen

will enhance management of the courier and takeout delivery sectors to improve traffic safety. Serious traffic violations such as running a red light, blocking vehicle lanes and causing serious traffic accidents by deliverymen will be listed in their discredit record, and they will be banned from working in the courier and takeout delivery sectors if they are involved in serious incidents.

Deliverymen have been severely criticized by the public for breaking traffic rules and causing accidents, and many local authorities have taken measures to deal with them. The Shenzhen traffic police department issued a regulation stating that deliverymen will lose their jobs if they violate traffic rules three times.

National regulations are required to better manage the courier and takeout delivery sectors. The new traffic regulation stating that deliverymen who repeatedly violate traffic rules will be banned from working in the sectors is a good step in that direction. The authorities also need to ask the enterprises to optimize the evaluation system of deliverymen by giving the latter enough time to deliver products to consumers without breaking traffic rules.

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