"There's an old Chinese expression that applies here, notes Leu: 'It takes 10 years to grow a tree, but 100 years to educate a man.' Generation after generation will use these schools, so there wasn't any need to be overly hasty just to meet some bureaucrat's schedule."
「十年樹木，百年樹人，好幾代人要使用的校舍，千萬不能為了趕『政績』而草草發包，」呂欽文說。