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Volume 6, Issue 2,  February  2009
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Anhui’s Version of Robert’s Rules
Di Minglei February 9,2009  Xin wenhua bao [New Cultural Newspaper]  
Yang Yunbiao, director of the Xinnong Farmers’ Professional Cooperative in Nantang village of Fuyang city in Anhui province is a pioneer in “new village reconstruction.” In an effort to promote village elections, Yang encountered many problems with the villagers’ meetings. Someone then introduced him to Yuan Tianpeng, who had studied abroad in the U.S. and who had established a company specializing in promoting Robert’s Rules in China.

Yuan compressed the Robert’s Rules to about 50 articles, but Yang said that the villagers still could not remember them, so in the end they were compressed into the 30 articles of the Nantang Rules.

When Yuan introduced Robert’s Rules, because of pronunciation problems, some people said, “What rules, Robert? Radish?” (radish and Robert sound similar in Chinese).
 
 

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