On April 12, the General Administration of Sports of the Communist Party of China announced the “Announcement on the Recommended List of Outstanding Athletes Undergraduate Recommendations in 2022”. The content mentioned that a total of 873 athletes passed the review and obtained the recommendation qualifications for recommendation to go to college. Among them, Zhu Yi, a figure skater who was born in the United States and naturalized in China in 2019, was recommended to Peking University. He is also the only athlete out of 873 athletes to enter Peking University, which has aroused heated public opinion.
On April 12, the State Sports General Administration of the Communist Party of China announced the “Announcement on the Recommended List of Outstanding Athletes for Undergraduate Recommendations in 2022”. The list shows that table tennis player Fan Zhendong plans to be recommended to Shanghai Jiaotong University, diving athlete Zhang Jiaqi plans to be recommended to Beijing Sports University, gymnast Guan Chenchen plans to be recommended to Zhejiang University, basketball players Wang Zhelin and Zhang Zhenlin plan to be recommended to Shanghai Jiaotong University, football players Liao Lisheng and Jin Jingdao They plan to be recommended to South China University of Technology and Qufu Normal University respectively. Figure skater Zhu Yi plans to be recommended to Peking University. She is also the only athlete who plans to be recommended to Peking University among the 873 people.
As soon as this list came out, it immediately pushed Zhu Yi to the forefront. There are two main points of questioning from netizens: First, Zhu Yi made a mistake in the Winter Olympics, the ranking stopped at 27, and he did not win a medal. Why should he recommend Peking University? 2. Is Zhu Yi suspected of going through the back door by recommending him to Peking University?
According to public information, Zhu Yi was born in the United States and transferred back to Chinese nationality in 2019, thus getting the opportunity to represent the Chinese team in international competitions. Before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhu Yi won a place to participate in the Winter Olympics in the Chinese figure skating team trials, replacing Chen Hongyi, who was favored by the outside world.
However, Zhu Yi’s personal performance in the Winter Olympics was not satisfactory. He ranked 27th in the stage of 30 to 24 and missed the cut. And Zhu Yi’s performance this time has also created the worst record in history. It is the first time in 30 years that the Chinese women’s single skating has missed the free skating since she participated in the Winter Olympics in 1992.
According to mainland media reports, the Chinese sports team spent more than 1.5 million US dollars to naturalize Zhu Yi to enter the Chinese team, and gave high-standard training conditions and facilities to many naturalized athletes, including Zhu Yi. The purpose is very clear. , is to let the athletes have reasonable results in the Winter Olympics and shock the honor for the Chinese national team.
Obviously, Zhu Yi’s performance did not meet the expectations of the Chinese team, and the cost of 10 million yuan failed to achieve the desired results. In the Winter Olympics, Zhu Yi’s two performances were at the bottom of the ranking. During the game, he fell many times and made many mistakes. Even before the game was over, Zhu Yi cried.
And what netizens are most impressed by Zhu Yi is that she is crying both on and off the court, and apologizes to netizens who are looking forward to her.
Zhu Yi’s performance is not outstanding, but he can enter the highest university in China. Zhang Jiaqi, who is also a national athlete, won the gold medal in the women’s 10-meter platform diving at the Tokyo Olympics, but was only recommended to Beijing Sports University.
Many netizens thought it was unfair for Zhu Yi to enter Peking University and questioned whether she had obtained some privileges.
The reason why Zhu Yi has attracted the attention of the outside world is largely because of his father. Zhu Yi’s father, named Zhu Songchun, is one of the scholars of the CCP’s Thousand Talents Program. He is an authority on artificial intelligence and a double professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University.
Born in Hubei, Zhu Songchun chose to study in the United States in 1992 and studied at Harvard University. Under the tutelage of Professor David Manford, an international mathematician, Fields Medal winner, US National Medal of Science winner, and former president of the International Association of Mathematicians.
After that, Zhu Songchun worked and taught at Brown University and Stanford University successively. Since 2002, he has joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to teach and has been awarded tenure for 18 years.
According to the data, Zhu Songchun will return to China in 2020 as a chair professor of basic science at Tsinghua University and a chair professor at Peking University; in 2021, he will be the dean of the School of Intelligence at Peking University and the dean of the Institute of General Artificial Intelligence (in preparation) of Tsinghua University.
As for why Zhu Songchun chose to return to China, it has attracted attention from the outside world. Many people speculate that the reason why Zhu Yi can represent the national team in the Winter Olympics may have gone through the “back door”.
A netizen on Zhihu asked this question, saying that he looked through the three admissions brochures for Peking University’s 2022 arts and language categories, and the high-level sports teams of Peking University did not recruit figure skating at all. So what is the basis for Peking University to recruit Zhu Yi? Where is the prospectus? In addition, if the children or other relatives of leading cadres in colleges and universities apply for the special type of enrollment in the school, they must report to the school and publicize it in the school, and the relevant leading cadres must avoid the whole process. Where is Zhu Songchun’s public information on campus?
As of press time, Peking University and the General Administration of Sports of the Communist Party of China have not yet responded to these questions.
