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Then, how do you look at the so-called digital gap between the rich and the poor, between the urban areas and the rural areas in China? Actually, the Internet technology can bridge the gap between the poor and the rich. Take the development of the northwest China for example. I used to think it would be very difficult for the Internet to be widely accessible in those areas. But actually the government invested money and made the broadband Internet access possible in Guizhou and Gansu because the government realized it is impossible to have so many teachers in those areas. Perhaps the local officials in those areas are just attracted by the idea of E-education, but nothing has been seriously translated into action. You are right. The problem of local authority is that they have the technologies, but they don't make good use of these technologies. So I think the biggest problem of online education in China is not the electric mind. It is the human mind.

那你怎么看待贫富之间，城市与农村之间所谓的数字鸿沟呢？ 实际上，网络技术能为贫富差距架起一座桥梁。就比如中国西北部的发展为例。我以前觉得要在这些地区广泛运用网络是十分困难的。但实际上，政府的投资使得网络开始进入贵州和甘肃，因为政府意识到这些地方要有很多老师来实地教学是很困难的。 或许当地政府只是被网络教育的概念所吸引但却没有付诸行动。你是对的。问题就是当地政府有这样的技术，但是他们却没有很好利用。所以我认为中国的在线教育最大的问题不是电的思想而是人的思想。