What they say

"China is on a march to a higher-income, highly productive, highly innovative economy and society. ... Based on my studies of numerous cases of the middle-income transition, I think it's fair to say that a 6 to 7 percent sustained transition through the middle income would be a new normal success."

Michael Spence, US economist and winner of 2001 Nobel Prize in economics

"Schools and all of society must help young people who would' break away' and take a different path to 'stand apart' from others."