导读:近日美团员工在一份招聘广告中表示不要“黄泛区”、东北人、信中医的人、开大众的人和研究生，此言论一出立刻引起各方关注。
China’s group buying website Meituan.com on May 17 issued an official apology for its employee’s offensive remarks about people from provinces in central and northeastern China.
近日美团员工在一份招聘声明中歧视“黄泛区”，17日该网站发布了一份声明对此事件表示道歉。
“We apologize for our employee’s discriminatory remarks, which go against the company’s values and have exerted a negative social influence. The employee has been removed from his position, as our company advocates for equality and tolerance,” Meituan wrote on its Sina Weibo page.
美团在其新浪官微上发文称：“员工歧视性言论违背了公司价值观，造成了社会负面影响，本公司在此表示歉意。为提倡平等和宽容，该员工已被开除以作惩罚。”
The apology was in response to comments made by Tian Yuan, an HR employee, in which Tian discouraged people from the so-called “inundation areas” in Henan, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Liaoning provinces from applying to work for the company. In a recruitment letter posted on the company’s WeChat, Tian stated that the company would not consider job applicants from the regions mentioned above. He also said that applicants with master’s degrees or PhDs would be excluded, as would those who believe in traditional Chinese medicine.
美团这一道歉是针对该公司人力资源部员工田源（音）言论的回应，该员工曾声称不接受“黄泛区”（包括河南、吉林、黑龙江和辽宁等省）的人应聘该公司工作。在该公司于微信上发出的招聘广告中，田源表示美团不会考虑黄泛区的应聘者。他还表示，研究生学位和相信中医的人也不会被聘用。
Tian’s remarks quickly went viral online, inciting a major backlash.
田源的言论很快走红，迎来网民齐声声讨。
“Do not meddle with the phrase ‘inundation areas.’ It represents a humanitarian disaster and is not something you should joke about,” one netizen wrote.
一个网民写道：“别拿黄泛区做文章，这几个字背后是惨痛的人祸，不是你应该拿来开玩笑的。”
Inundation areas mainly refer to Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, where the 1938 Yellow River flood, created by the Kuomintang in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese invaders, drowned over 800,000 people.
“黄泛区”主要是河南、江苏和安徽等地区，1938年国民党为了阻止日军快速推进，人为造成黄河泛滥，导致了80多万人死亡。
Meituan confirmed that said such wording is unacceptable, and promised to educate its employees.
美团表示这些言论的确不可接受，并承诺将教育员工。
