"I believe that we can realize the target of 1,000 kg yield per mu (1 hectare = 15 mu). Scientifically speaking, China's hybrid rice has the potential."

Yuan Longping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known as the "father of hybrid rice," expressing his confidence in the development of hybrid rice during an interview with Xinhua News Agency on July 5

"China's huge market can be both a blessing and a curse for local information technology firms. It's a blessing in that it's usually difficult for foreign firms to navigate and compete, and it is a curse in the sense that its size makes it difficult for a firm to enter the overseas market once it has successfully optimized for the Chinese market."

Lee Kai-Fu, Founder of Innovation Works and former President of Google China, at the Future China Global Forum in Singapore on July 9

"Films can't always be about entertainment. During the past decade, Chinese films have been too focused on solely entertaining. It is unhelpful to children."

Feng Xiaoning, a renowned film director, during an interview with Qilu Evening News on July 6

"Although oil is an important part of our economy, it is not the Achilles' heel of the Iranian economy and it never will be. Iran's GDP totaled $930 billion in 2011. A total economic boycott of a country with that kind of economic volume is practically impossible."

Hassan Tajik, newly appointed Iranian ambassador to Austria, asserting that the West would be unable to back Iran into a corner with its sanctions in an interview with the Austrian Press Agency in Vienna on July 11