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日本朝日新闻,关于确认guagua经济来源来自当年万达老板徐明
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201210030001
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts--The newsroom of the Crimson, the daily newspaper of Harvard University, was buzzing with activity after an e-mail arrived in late April.
The message was from Bo Guagua, a Harvard student, who said he wanted to explain his side of a story that was gaining international attention at that time.
The previous month, Bo’s father, Bo Xilai, 63, was relieved of his post as secretary of the Chongqing municipal Communist Party committee. In April, the student’s mother, Gu Kailai, 53, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Amid the scandal, Bo Guagua, 24, came under the spotlight, as his reportedly extravagant lifestyle as a student fueled speculation of illegal money transfers involving his parents.
Bo Guagua’s message, sent from his account at the Kennedy School at Harvard, read in part, "My tuition and living expenses at Harrow School, University of Oxford and Harvard University were funded exclusively by two sources--scholarships earned independently, and my mother's generosity from the savings she earned from her years as a successful lawyer and writer."
The Harvard Crimson, with a staff of about 200, printed the entire message, and the content was made available to the world over the Internet.
Benjamin Samuels, president of the Crimson, had two reporters check the accuracy of the message because it involved a subject that was of international interest.
Contact was eventually made with Bo Guagua, who confirmed he sent the message.
In the e-mail, Bo responded to rumors and criticism directed at children of high-ranking Chinese officials concerning their high-flying lives as students abroad.
Some reports said Bo rode around in a Ferrari and a Porsche.
"I have never driven a Ferrari," he wrote in the e-mail.
He also denied living an extravagant lifestyle due to the influence of his parents and pointed out that he had a good academic record ever since he began studying in Britain.
One question that has hounded Bo Guagua was how he could afford his overseas education.
A year studying at Harvard costs at least $60,000 (about 4.8 million yen). Since Bo Guagua studied abroad from the time he was in junior high school, the total expenses for his overseas education likely reached $500,000.
Bo Xilai's annual salary as secretary of the Chongqing municipal Communist Party committee was about $20,000 (about 1.6 million yen). Gu Kailai established a law firm in Beijing in 1995, but she left it in 2001.
After Bo Xilai's fall from power, rumors emerged that Xu Ming, chairman of the Dalian Shide Group, was the source of the funds that paid for Guagua's studies abroad.
Xu, 41, was the head of the conglomerate that owned the soccer club that Bo Xilai supported in the 1990s, when he was mayor of Dalian. For those reasons, Xu was on close terms with the Bo family.
The Times of London reported that in the late 1990s, before Bo Guagua attended Harrow School in London, Xu visited Britain with Gu and paid for not only Gu's travel costs but also covered Bo Guagua's education expenses.
A university professor in Beijing who has done research on corruption within the Chinese Communist Party told The Asahi Shimbun, "Xu did provide funds to the Bo family."
The professor, who requested anonymity, cited someone close to Xu.
Xu has been detained and is being questioned by Chinese authorities.
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The previous installments of this series are available at:
(1) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209120005
(2) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209140010
(3) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209170004
(4) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209190001
(5) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209210007
(6) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209240004
(7) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209260004
(8) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209280004
(9) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201210010004 |
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