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Chen Weizhi, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and president of Shanghai New Epoch Education Group, a private K-12 school group, suggested canceling English courses for first and second grade primary school students and also reducing the course hours of English for secondary school students.
全国政协委员、上海新纪元教育集团（一家提供基础教育服务的民营教育机构）董事长陈伟志建议减少初中、高中英语课时，取消小学一二年级英语课程。
To reduce the competitiveness of exam-oriented English teaching and learning, English should become an elective subject for the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, he told news outlet ThePaper.cn.
陈伟志在接受澎湃新闻采访时表示，为了降低应试英语教学的竞争力，建议将高考外语必考科目改为选考科目。
According to Sichuan Radio and Television, Tuo Qingming, a deputy to the National People's Congress and principal of No 2 Middle School of Yucheng District in Ya'an, Sichuan province, suggested lowering the weighting of the English test in the gaokao from 150 points to 100.
据四川广播电视台报道，全国人大代表、四川省雅安雨城区第二中学校长庹庆明也提出了类似建议，希望将高考英语科目的分值从150分降至100分。
The total scores for gaokao are 750.
高考总分为750分。
He believes that English takes up too much in weighting in the gaokao and too much time for students to learn, yet it is not useful for many people.
庹庆明认为高考英语分值过高，会耗费学生大量的学习时间，但对许多人来说，英语并没有什么用处。
However, Dong Hongchuan, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and president of Sichuan International Studies University, said proposals on reducing the importance of English education should be treated carefully,
然而，全国政协委员、四川外国语大学校长董洪川表示，应谨慎对待关于降低英语教育重要性的提案。
as strengthening English education is in line with the country to pursue high-quality opening-up, building a community with a shared future for mankind and participating in global governance.
因为加强英语教育符合国家着力培养服务高水平对外开放、构建人类命运共同体和参与全球治理的涉外人才的要求。
"The basic policy of opening-up remains unchanged. If we do not understand foreign languages, we cannot understand the development of other countries," he said in an interview with China.org.
在接受中国网采访时，董洪川说：“中国对外开放的基本国策没有变。如果不懂外语，我们无法了解其他国家的发展。”
Foreign language and translation play an important role in international communication and in today's world, translating China's voices to the world is as important as translating the world's voices to China, he added.
他补充说，外语特别是翻译在国际传播中发挥了非常重要的作用，当今时代，“翻译中国”和“翻译世界”同等重要，并驾齐驱。
Xiong Bingqi, director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, said the reason for skepticism about English education is that the exam-oriented English teaching has not been effective for Chinese.
21世纪教育研究院院长熊丙奇表示，对英语教育持怀疑态度的原因是，应试英语教学对中国人来说并不有效。
Reducing the weighting of English in exams won't solve problems, he said, adding instead more autonomy should be given to universities in determining the requirement for students enrolling in different majors.
熊丙奇表示，降低英语科目在考试中的分值并不能解决问题，相反，应该赋予大学更多的自主权来决定不同专业的英语成绩要求。
This way, students can choose how well they plan to study the language based on the major, university and career they want to pursue, he said.
通过这种方式，学生可以结合自己的大学和专业以及未来的职业发展来选择怎样学英语。
