Moreover, not only was Zhen Xiaouyu executed, but Cao Wenzhuang, who was in charge of drug registration at the SFDA, was sentenced to death for accepting roughly $300,000 in bribes from drug manufacturers. Both verdicts were doubtless calculated, as a famous Chinese proverb puts it, to “kill some chickens in order to scare the monkeys.”
此外，不仅仅是郑筱萸一个人被处决了，药品注册司原司长曹文庄因为从药品生产厂家那儿收受了大约30万美元的贿赂也被判处了死刑。这两次判决无疑都是经过精心考虑的，就像一句著名的中国谚语所说的，这是在“杀鸡给猴看”。