"This is an ideal opportunity for China to use some diplomatic finesse and gain some soft power...regardless of the result in Syria, China does stand to gain much by brokering for peace."
MoralDrift, a Global Times netizen,
commenting on the Global Times editorial 'Third path' for Syria to end deadlock Saturday.
"The most obvious disadvantage is that students are ranked by score. Talents are diversified, but score ranking can only deny that diversity."
Gong Ke, president of Nankai University,
on the necessity of reforms of gaokao, national college-entrance examination, quoted by People's Daily Friday.