"More talented people are needed in rural areas, especially those specializing in agricultural, medical and educational fields."

Wu Yongming, Vice President of the Jiangxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, on June 17. As the pressure of finding a job grows, more college graduates are choosing to go back to their rural homes to realize their dreams

"Anxiety is a common problem among many residents because their houses and belongings were damaged in the quake."

Wang Zejun, the chief of Longmen Township Hospital, in response to a woman's suicide in a village on June 16 in the aftermath of the magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Ya'an, Sichuan Province, on April 20

"A prominent problem for the food industry is that most profits have been taken away by retailers, such as big shopping malls, forcing food producers to keep agricultural products they buy from farmers at a very low price."

Zong Qinghou, Chairman of beverage giant Wahaha, on June 17, the first day of the national food safety week

"I didn't really follow any discussions at the beginning, it was all too confusing, but microblog has become a window to Chinese society."

Christoph Rehage, a 32-year-old graduate student from Germany who majored in Mandarin at Beijing Film Academy, on June 17