House Prices Up 50% In Five Years

The top-scoring students of this year's college entrance exam have just been announced. The pride of the community, they are often put on a public pedestal. But here's the case of where the champion students are being used to help sell underwear. Susan Tart has more on the social dispute.

Billionaires Looking For Billions?

The top-scoring students of this year's college entrance exam have just been announced. The pride of the community, they are often put on a public pedestal. But here's the case of where the champion students are being used to help sell underwear. Susan Tart has more on the social dispute.

Paid Overtime? If You Can Prove It!

Parental Matchmakers 

From this month (September) elementary and junior high schools in China - which together make up the nine year compulsory education period - will provide free textbooks for students. To help out, textbooks will be re-used - being passed on from one year to the next. In addition the only fees charged to students in these grades will be so called "optional extras" such as school lunches and uniforms. With the importance attached to education in Chinese society this must be good news for ordinary Chinese parents. So how do they feel about the new rules? Our reporter Julia Wang went out on the streets of Beijing to find out.