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For most Chinese people, Hu Jia is an unfamiliar name. But it is red hot in the Western media.

Formerly known as the EU's Sakharov human rights award winner and an "honorary citizen of Paris," Hu Jia was described as China's "most famous" and "most influential social activist" in the Western media's recent reports about his release following three years in prison.

People cannot help wondering: there are millions of people devoted to the progress of China, why is it this Hu Jia who has won such great acclaim in Western mainstream public opinion?

China's charity system is paying a high price for its lack of transparency.

Guo Meimei, a 20-year-old girl who claimed to be "Red Cross Chamber of Commerce's" general manager while flaunting her lavish lifestyle online, apologized on her microblog on Sunday for faking her identity and damaging the reputation of the Red Cross Society of China.

Before Guo's posts appeared, the Red Cross had denied Guo was its employee. However, the public does not seem to buy these announcements.

"Whether it's adding lines at existing stations or building a station in the middle of a city, there will be problems, such as the cost of mass relocations. And the new station will be consistent with of the city's entire urban planning. "

Zhao Guotang, chief engineer of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway,

on reasons why the new line has to build most of its stations far from the passing cities' downtown areas, quoted by China National Radio Online on Sunday.

"The hospitalization of a patient with a mental disorder is a special task. It will be a problem to burden a doctor with both ethical and legal decisions."

Liu Xiehe, a professor of psychiatry at West China Medical School,

on the problem of wrongly hospitalizing sane people as mental patients, quoted by Yangcheng Evening News on Sunday.