Reporter's university post sparks debate

Veteran journalist Yin Hong will be given a senior university role to become the third reporter promoted by the Yunnan government within a year.

Yin, 47, has worked for the popular national newspaper China Youth Daily since 1985 and is now the head of its Yunnan bureau.

On May 13, the provincial government announced that it had nominated Yin to become vice-president at the Yunnan University of Finance and Economics - a prefecture-level position in the country's civil service system.