According to Hong Kong's Asia Weekly, Lang Xianping, a professor of finance and economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, hosted the first financial channel program "Financial Lang Leisure Review" of Shanghai Cable TV, which was suddenly stopped by the Shanghai authorities on February 27th. According to the source, Lang Xianping was jointly accused by some business people he criticized and exposed on trumped-up charges. They pointed out that people born in Taiwan Province Province have "complicated backgrounds" and "suspicious motives", and some economic debates in recent years "played a role that Li * * * and Chen * * * could not". Our reporter called the First Financial Channel of Shanghai Cable TV Station on Monday for verification. The staff who answered the phone said that Lang Xianping's program was stopped because his Mandarin was not standard: "If you are a host, you must have an employment certificate, and Mandarin must be Grade A, but Lang Xianping can't have an employment certificate, so you can't get it." Because some time ago, CCTV's qualification problem for the host was very serious, and then this time it was very tense. "
The program "Financial Lang Leisure Review" was launched two years ago, twice a week, half an hour each time, and replayed five times. The program has also been a great success, ranking the top three in the ratings of Shanghai cable TV programs, and sometimes ranking first. Shen Zhou, a student majoring in finance at a famous university in Shanghai, told this reporter that her Mandarin is very good, except that she occasionally has a Minnan accent, which sounds good. He also said: "Judging from Lang Xianping's lectures, the spectacular attendance or large number of people can show that it can at least attract many people. In particular, every episode of the "Financial Lang Leisure Review" program can be found on BT (outside the campus network) or FTP (inside the campus network). I think this shows from the side that it is already hot. "
Lang Xianping has taught in many famous universities in the United States, served as corporate governance consultant of the World Bank, and is currently the chief professor of the Finance Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He once strongly questioned the loss of state-owned assets in Chinese mainland and criticized the management of some enterprises for occupying state-owned assets in the name of acquisition. The so-called dispute with Gu, chairman of Greencool's board of directors, which lasted for one year, ended in Gu's arrest. In the * * * survey of Sina. Lang Xianping's approval rating is as high as 90%. In the survey of "Which Mainstream Economist Do You Believe" by China Youth Daily, Lang Xianping also ranked first. Although Lang Xianping is very popular, he is not among the 20 candidates for economic figures in 2005 selected by CCTV. The reporter called Lang Xianping's office on Monday, but the school staff said that he was away from school all day and didn't have his personal phone number.
In an exclusive interview with Lang Xianping, Shanghai Xinmin Weekly once wrote: His avant-garde, sharpness, subversion and popularity among the public are enough to eclipse pop rock singer Cui Jian. No economist will be treated so completely differently: some people regard him as the "godfather", while others call him a "rogue" and a "fame-seeker".
In this regard, Zhong Dajun, director of the Beijing Institute of Folk Economic Observation, said that this is a struggle between two major interest groups, public interest groups and personal self-interest groups, or to put it bluntly, it is a struggle between the poor and the rich: "China engaged in public ownership for a period of time in the first 30 years and private ownership in the last 30 years, so there is a problem of uneven distribution of spoils. At present, the interests of the whole society are very different. Scholars often become representatives of various interest groups. Lang Xianping's standing in the position of a certain faction here has harmed many domestic interest groups, so the resistance he encountered in this interest group is quite severe. Even in 2004, some members of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce wanted to hold a meeting to criticize Lang Xianping. These interest groups just don't know how to resist and engage in some dark actions. " At present, the program time of Financial Langxian Review has been replaced by the column of Financial Lecture Hall.