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PEOPLE & POINTS
THIS WEEK> THIS WEEK NO. 28, 2014> PEOPLE & POINTS
UPDATED: July 7, 2014 NO. 28 JULY 10, 2014
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"Higher job expectations often bring about greater employment pressure, but reasonable and tempered expectations will lower it."

Xiong Hanzhong, Director of the Beijing Youth Stress Management Service Center, drawing on a report from the center that found employment pressure on Chinese graduates has fallen significantly since 2013

"It can reduce corruption related to the preferential policy and reverse the trend of more and more Chinese students studying to get the extra points. But what if students give up developing their talent after they realize that these skills can no longer bring them extra points and put them in better standing on the gaokao?"

Xiong Bingqi, Deputy Director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, in response on June 30 to the Ministry of Education's tightening of a preferential policy that awards bonus points in the national college entrance exams to students with exceptional abilities in the sciences and sports

"Online lotteries usually account for more than 30 percent of overall lottery sales in developed countries. So it is a market with great potential."

Li Zichuan, an analyst with the Beijing-based Internet consultant group Analysis International, commenting on July 2 on Chinese fans' online gambling during the 2014 World Cup

"Have faith in domestic movies! How can we repeat the 'mistake' of 2012's Lost in Thailand—when we thought it would only bring in 200 million yuan ($320,000)—and ultimately found it was a 1.2 billion yuan ($190 million) movie?"

Zhang Hongsen, Director of the Film Bureau under the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, at the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival on June 25



 
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