Butcher to put down knife,pick up books
( 2003-08-27 10:14) (Agencies)
Fate has taken a turn for the better for Lu Buxuan, who is contemplating
giving up his job as a butcher and taking a teaching position in the Chinese
language department of the Xi’an University of Engineering Science and
Technology in Shaanxi Province.He was invited to work at the university’s
newHumanities College last week.
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Lu Buxuan(left) and
his wife Chen Xiaoying talks with fellow Beijing University classmate wang
Hongxin(center).[Xinhua]
| Beijing Today first
reported on Lu’s situation on Augus 8. In 1985, he scored the highest marks on
the university entrance examination of any student of his hometown of Chang’an
in Shaanxi and ended up graduating with a degree in Chinese from Beijing
University 1989. He the took a job at a factory, but when it went bankrupt, he
was left with little choice but to eke out a meager living by opening a small
butcher shop in 2000.
The domestic media picked up his story in late July, and within one week more
than 50 colleges and companies from around China contacted him to offer him
positions.
Last Thursday, according to Xi’an-basedHuashang Daily, Lu had a meeting with
Huang Xiang, vice president of Xi’an Uniersity of Engineering Science and
Technology, to discuss the possibility of working at the university.
After the meeting, he told Huangshang Daily that the deal was “almost done”,
and he was “very satisfiedIn the meantime, the press attention given to Lu’s
business, called the Glasses Butcher Shop, has drawn the interest of the
American corporation Tes. Company president Zhou Bin, a Chinese American, saw
reports on Lu’s story on thInternet and has since contacted him about possible
cooperation.
“We are interested in the name of ‘Glasses Butcher Shop’, because through the
Chinese media it has become famed throughout the country. We hope to deve it
into a famous brand and a chain company,” said Mr. Sun, a company
representative.
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