Law must put age before beauty

WANG JIAJUAN, a deputy of the National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature, recently proposed to amend the Law on the Protection of Minors so as to prohibit cosmetic surgery on minors. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Wang's worry is not unwarranted. For the past few years, double eyelids, nose jobs and chin shaping plastic surgery have become increasingly popular among young people.

For example, Xinhua News Agency reported that the majority of the 32 students of a high school class in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, had operations on their eyelids.