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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