"The online muckraking about Yang Dacai shows that the Internet is playing an increasingly important role in bringing hidden conflicts to the surface."

Yu Guoming, Director of the Institute of Public Opinion of Beijing-based Renmin University of China, commenting on the muckraking campaign against Yang Dacai, an official with a weakness for luxurious watches caught smiling at the site of a fatal bus crash, on September 7

"We are getting older, and one day a spouse will die and leave the other alone in this world. Without a legal guardian, the remaining spouse faces enormous difficulties in later life, because hospitals refuse to carry out surgery on people who cannot find a legal guardian to sign consent, and nursing homes turn away applicants without a legal guardian present."

Li Minglan, a mother in Wuhan, Hubei Province, whose only son died from a brain hemorrhage in 1999, commenting the Ministry of Civil Affairs' plan to include senior citizens who have lost an only child in the state care system on September 21

"We talked about the 'American Dream' in the past, now we can talk about the world's top talent enjoying the 'Chinese Dream.'"

Liu Yanguo, Deputy General Director of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, explaining a recruitment project that aims to introduce up to a 1,000 foreign professionals over 10 years to help spur innovation, and promote scientific research and corporate management in China on September 24

"My hope is to draw public attention to unfair college admittance practices."

Cheng Shuaishuai, a college graduate from central China's Henan Province, protesting high enrollment rates for Beijing students at Peking University and other Beijing-based universities by carrying a sign with Chinese characters reading "Beijingers' University" in front of the university on September 10