The phenomenon has brought many different opinions to light. The People's Daily quotes some as arguing what Hong Kong universities are offering is causing great competition for mainland universities to attract top students.

If this is the case, the paper asks, should student recruitment and the loan system of mainland universities adjust themselves in order to fit into the current changes?

An official from the Chinese Ministry of Education, Wang Xuming, answers that universities in Hong Kong does provide students from the mainland with bigger opportunities. Moreover, they have helped with the future development of both mainland and Hong Kong universities.

Accoring to the newspaper, although some new issues have been raised in this year's student recruitment process, higher education institutions in China have already started working on these issues in order to find ways to attract top students to this newly developed competitive system.