"China's leaders value the importance of foreign experts and welcome us to work in the country and share our insights during its development."

Yahia Mustafa Mohamed Ahmed, a senior news editor from Sudan who has been working in China for 15 years, after attending the meeting of Xi Jinping, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), with foreign experts on December 5. There are currently about 530,000 foreign experts working in China.

 "It's far from enough for a mistress to expose a corrupt official after a breakup. We need legislation in place for reporting officials' asset information to anti-corruption agencies and the general public."

Ma Huaide, Vice President of China University of Political Science and Law, at a seminar convened by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on November 30.

"The new requirements reflect the ministry's purpose in recruiting university presidents publicly--ministry officials want our universities to have professional leaders impervious to the influence of administrative power."

Xiong Bingqi, Deputy Director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, in response to the Ministry of Education's recent move to publicly recruit presidents for three universities, namely the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, and China Pharmaceutical University based in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, on December 5.

"My dream is to live with the girl I love. It doesn't matter if I have to cut firewood and pick up rags for a living. What is the use of studying? Is it getting high marks and ranks to compete with my buddies for limited places at top high schools?"

Feng Shaoyi, a 10-year-old junior middle school student from Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, writing an online post about his intention to quit school, which has attracted more than 7,000 comments and was forwarded more than 18,000 times. His harsh criticism of the education system surprised many.