The current people are not okay

　　这届人民不行

　　In March, an official wrote in the People’s Daily that every Chinese citizen is responsible for building a corruption-free society.

　　三月，一位官员在人民日报上写道，每一个中国公民都应为创建廉洁社会负责。

　　The author Xi Hua argued that the party’s anti-corruption drive has “achieved huge accomplishments” in recent years, but in order to keep this momentum going, the bigger challenge is to stop everyone from offering bribes in the first place. For example, patients should never give “red envelopes” of money to doctors ahead of surgeries.

　　作者习骅提出，近年来党的反腐败运动“取得了巨大的成就”，但为了保持这种势头，更大的挑战在于首先要阻止大家行贿。例如，病人不应该在手术前给医生递“红包”。

　　The article soon garnered scathing responses on the internet, with many bloggers commenting with the line “The current people are not okay” to ridicule the author’s argument, which is now used to mock official misconduct or social problems.

　　很快，这篇文章就在互联网上收到了尖锐的评论，许多博主用“这届人民不行”来评论这篇文章，以此嘲笑这位作者的论点。如今，这句话被用来嘲弄官员渎职或社会问题。