It's not easy to ensure every needy student does not miss out on a college education because of poverty, but since the commitment has been made, tangible progress must follow. Given China's current fiscal revenue, to provide every needy university recruit with school loans and even relieve them of some tuition, at least in the first year, is not a big problem, but the reality is the proportion of China's education input to its GDP has long been below the world average and school loans still have a number of students to cover.

When stories about students getting access to college thanks to public donations are extensively covered by the media, maybe it's more important to check how many students give up college due to poverty and find the loopholes in the system.

Zhujiang Evening News

When Giving Is Wrong

From kindergartens to middle schools, parents sending presents to their children's teachers is already a common practice in China. The gifts keep being upgraded every year. Nowadays, greeting cards are rarely seen, with mobile phones and cash gifts more commonly given. In most cases, parents do so because they hope the teachers will pay special attention to their children.

Some teachers accept the valuable gifts at the parents' insistence, and it does happen that some immoral teachers even force parents to offer gifts.

Both parents and teachers are children's role models and their behavior will easily influence the juveniles. Most teachers would dedicate themselves to the students even without gifts. If all parents begin to send gifts during important festivals, the normal teaching process may be disturbed. This abnormal trend will also do harm to students' psychological health.

Dazhong Daily

Globalization or Protecting National Interests?

Coca-Cola's $2.4-billion bid for Huiyuan, China's largest fruit juice maker by market share, has sparked a heated debate over whether multinationals should be allowed to take over indigenous brands.

As for brand value, according to statistics from the UN Development Program, less than 3 percent of the world's total brands are worldwide famous, but they control over 40 percent of the global market. Their sales volume accounts for as much as 90 percent in industries such as computer software.

A famous brand is built on a company's hard work in research and development and its unremitting efforts to improve management and corporate culture. If a country possesses a number of big business brands, it actually has invisible assets that can influence the rest of the world. In this sense, prestigious brands not only have a national nature but also represent national interests.

In most cases, to protect the big indigenous brands is not going against globalization but is a way to protect national interests, a basis for a country to compete equally in globalization.

Science and Technology Daily