"Food safety crimes seriously harm people's health, and severely disturb the order of the market economy. We'll resolutely fight against those crimes and impose harsher punishments."

Sun Jungong, a spokesman for the Supreme People's Court, at a news conference in Beijing on May 3

"It makes no sense to erect a statue to celebrate students' exam results."

Yang Yuan, a 19-year-old Tsinghua University freshman, in response to a statue of himself erected by Laifeng County High School in central China's Hubei Province where he studied before going to college. Yang scored the highest in the 2012 national college entrance examination in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture last year

"I can't imagine what I will be like in 10 years, when I still won't be able to afford a house or even a car."

Chen Yu, a 31-year-old program editor at a TV station, on May 3. Soaring prices and a complicated household registration system are preventing many young Chinese from obtaining their first home

"Many doctors and nurses sometimes ignore risks from their work and have never been trained or educated in how to protect themselves."

Li Huijuan, a lawyer specializing in doctor-patient cases, in response to a tragedy in which a doctor trying to escape assault by a patient's family fatally fell from the third floor of the hospital building in Guantao County, Hebei Province, on May 5