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Last Updated: Monday, 17 October 2005, 08:44 GMT 09:44 UK
China space success: Yazhuo Ye
You asked me - just before the launch - if I had any fears for its success. It's like you asking a pregnant women if she is afraid of failure of the delivery before she enters the surgery room. Aren't you supposed to give us some blessing as civilised people and a civilised country?

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Yazhuo Ye
Name: Yazhuo Ye
Age: 32
Lives: Ningbo
Works: Sales manager

Is harshness or rudeness a principle of BBC journalism? Give me one reason why it will be a continuous pleasure to talk to you guys?

Ok, here, I find one. The more communication, the more understanding, the more appreciation and a more peaceful world. So let me talk calmly here, offering my right cheek after getting slapped on my left one.

Our country to most Chinese is like a mother to kids. Guess that's where the word "motherland" comes from. We could complain about her ourselves but [not to] people abroad. As the Chinese saying goes: every family has a "skeleton in the cupboard". You only share good things with other people, not the "skeleton", and we are not people who are overly curious and trying to dig out others' skeletons.

And it's also hard for us to accept people abroad who say something not nice about our country. Call me patriot, brain washed or team player, whatever you like.

There are a lot of exciting things happening around me - the world's highest road, completed on Qinghai Plateau; the world's longest bridge is under construction which will shorten our journey to Shanghai; and a new supermarket, hotel and club are opening right opposite my house. My new flat's decoration is being finished, my consulting company is opening and I am busy advertising it.

This manned spacecraft is just one of them. I feel it's a bit too high-profiled and too commercial as scientific research though. Maybe its my need to change - to accept scientists who can do more than 'just do it quietly'.

China is a moving world, only if you come here and experience it by yourself.




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