摘要
WH EN Zhuo Qiang announced to his family that he was quitting his cushy job at a government deparb ment and was relocating to Kenya without any employment offer in hand. they thought he had gone mad. "Since graduating from university in 1996, I had been working in a government department in [southwest China's] Chongqing Municipality It was a stable job and allowed me to go abroad several times on official business," the 43-year-old explained. Such jobs are called the "iron rice bowl" in China, known for their reliability as a means of livelihood, And yet there he was, ready to throw away all that security and career prospect on the basis of just one trip in 2005 which left him smitten.
WH EN Zhuo Qiang announced to his family that he was quitting his cushy job at a government deparb ment and was relocating to Kenya without any employment offer in hand. they thought he had gone mad. "Since graduating from university in 1996, I had been working in a government department in [southwest China's] Chongqing Municipality It was a stable job and allowed me to go abroad several times on official business," the 43-year-old explained. Such jobs are called the "iron rice bowl" in China, known for their reliability as a means of livelihood, And yet there he was, ready to throw away all that security and career prospect on the basis of just one trip in 2005 which left him smitten.