Shang Yang was a politician of the Qin state.

商鞅是秦国的一位政治家。

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He put a thin wooden pole at the south gate of the Qin capital.

他在秦都的南门放了一根细木杆。

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He ordered some soldiers to put a thin wooden pole at the south gate of the Qin state capital.

他命令士兵们在秦都的南门放一根细木杆。

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"Peasants are more sophisticated these days, " says Wang Qin, a math teacher in a Hubei village school.

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Qin formed a centralized, autocratic government, built a nationwide network of roads and canals, standardized weights, measures and currency and formalized the written language.

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Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that China had always "actively balanced its work between the Syrian government and the opposition".

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