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Why the kindergarten let the healthy kid take the drug? Who should be responsible?

What happened exactly?

Topic2 Surgery Accident InsuranceSeveral hospitals in Beijing are trying to promote accident insurances for the patients who will have a surgery. The aim is to ease the tension between doctors and patients.

Is there a need for such kind of insurance?

Topic3 Cost of Marriage RankingA little heads-up for our single male listeners—no matter if you plan to get married or not, you'd better start saving money now.

A recent report reveals that in big cities, the cost of taking a wife is more than 1 million yuan. Can you afford it?

Is it that expensive?

Topic4 China Gives the Go-ahead for Private BanksShang Fulin, chairman of the China Banking¹ Regulatory Commission, says on Tuesday that ten companies including Internet giants Alibaba and Tencent have been picked to invest in China's first five privately² owned banks.

Shang says the planned banks, part of sweeping³ reform plans announced last year, will be expected to operate independently and according to market principles. He gave no timetable for when they would open or details of their intended size.

Private capital only accounts for 10% of total capital of mid⁴ and big banks. The figure is as high as 50% in small sized banks and 90% in rural small sized finance institutions.

Are private banks really coming? How big is the will to allow market forces into the banking sector⁵?

Topic5 Political advisor⁶ dispenses⁷ with government adviceA political advisor to the national legislature has criticized excessive government intervention⁸ by saying "if the government encourages farmers to raise pigs, then chickens must be the better choice."Yue Hongfu, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, made the comment in favor of market forces as the better motor for creating economic growth.

Yue argues the government is poor at picking up market signals, and making mistakes is inevitable⁹ when officials decide to intervene in the economy.

Does it make sense when farmers don't follow government directions?

Topic6 Worst Song LyricsNow "the crappiest lyrics¹⁰ I've ever heard" has become a hot topic on weibo. More than 34,000 net users joined the heated discussion and recommend bad songs for each other.

What are the crappiest lyrics that you've ever heard?

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