students cheating in the exam and paying bribes for a better mark although they don't merit such high marks by their actual academic performance. And there is tremendous pressure on foreign teachers to award high marks for students who simply do not deserve it.

Worst is the doctoring of MARKS after they have been entered into their so called system.

Like you, I award marks to my students on speaking tests and overall performance in the classroom, or a merit based system. You got to earn it, or work for it, a novel concept in China perhaps, but not the rest of the world.

When they changed the marks, I called them on it....but no,they all must pass! Mei banfa, go with the flow!