The Chinese public is educated to follow the traditional Chinese virtue that one must think first of the needs of children and the elderly.

So, the action of giving up seats to senior citizens on the bus is encouraged and regarded as a display of moral integrity. But not all Chinese people to adhere to this unwritten rule.

The central Chinese city of Zhengzhou has recently launched a new measure to force passengers to give up their seats to senior citizens. If they fail to do so, the driver has the right to stop the bus or even impose a fine.

Jiangsu-based 'Daily Express' published a commentary criticizing the move, calling it damaging to passengers' legal rights and an unnecessary compulsion on people's morality.

The paper says that tickets endow passengers with the right to keep a seat and passengers are deprived of this right by the ruling. It suggests that the action of giving up seats should be done with the passengers' free will and the enforcement of this obligation will serve only to depreciate the value of morality.

In conclusion, the article says that the bus company has missed the point. That the shortage of buses causes difficulty for people to get a seat and thus they often prefer to keep it, therefore bus companies should focus on providing more buses to satisfy demand instead of launching flawed regulations.