Fired professor rejects claim he broke nation's one-child rule_美文

Fired professor rejects claim he broke nation's one-child rule

The university refused to comment on Cai's appeal on Tuesday. Since being sacked by the university, Cai has been working part-time for a friend's chemical company.

Cai's wife, who began studying for a doctoral degree at the university in September 2017, was asked by the university's family planning office to give up her studies. The office said a family with two children would affect the university's annual performance in family planning assessment by the local government authority.

But she claims the university gave her a verbal promise that she would be allowed to continue her studies, as the decision to fire Cai had already brought significant losses to the family.

Questions:

1. The fired professor worked at which university?

2. Why was he fired?

3. His first child was born in which country?

Answers:

1. South China University of Technology.

2. He had violated the nation's family planning policy

3. The United States.

About the broadcaster:

Anne Ruisi is an editor at China Daily online with more than 30 years of experience as a newspaper editor and reporter. She has worked at newspapers in the U.S., including The Birmingham News in Alabama and City Newspaper of Rochester, N.Y.