Discussion over China's various preferencial policies in high school recruitment exam is heating up again. To keep top-notch commercial talents in Shenzhen, the municipal education bureau has announced a new regulation that gives these talents' children an additional 10 points on the senior secondary entrance examinations, a move that has been widely criticized. Now we have a look at the various arguments from domestic media.

A commentary published on the website Eastday.com agrees with the idea giving incentives to the talents, but not to their children. For example, since top-notch commercial talents have contributed greatly to economic development, it is logical to give them tax rebates. However, it is ridiculous to give their children additional points on examinations.

The author of the commentary thinks it is fair to give additional points to ethnic minority students, who are socially disadvantaged in histry, or to students whose parents have made sacrifices for the country. However, the children of commercial talents have already enjoyed privileged learning conditions. To give them preferencial policy will create inequal educational opportunities.

An article in the Modern Express reports that Zhangzhou and Urumqi have similar policies, in which children of investors or otherwise affluent families are granted up to 20 additional points. China's practice of handing out additional points is uncommon in foreign countries, where such actions are considered discriminatory.

The article further argues that if a social group needs assistance, then the government should provide them subsidies. If someone has made a great contribution, then he or she should be officially rewarded. Sacrificing fairness in competition is not a valid means of social adjustment, and the idea of giving additional points should be abolished.

One commentry from Nanfang Daily points out that the local governments can always justify awarding additional points, either to special talents, to big tax payers, or to others. But they will never grant aditional points to the children of blue-collar workers or migrant workers who have no power to influence public policy. This preferencial policy has become a serious problem in corrupting fairness in our education system.