Free-market choice

Some scholars, including Qiu Baochang, head of the lawyers' group of the China Consumers' Association, feel that Chinese consumers should be educated to spend more rationally so no more students will want to sell their organs to buy anything. Campaigns, they believe, are urgently needed on campuses to help students understand the real value of money and what they really need.

But Zou disagreed. "There is no right or wrong about how people spend their money, as long as it's legal. In a free market, people have the right to buy what they like, no matter how irrational the choice is."

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