Wang Longxing (right), director of the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration and a member of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, answers Netizens' questions about the city's food safety at an online forum yesterday. During the committee's plenary meeting, people can raise questions to delegates through the Internet. -Shanghai Daily

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The city's approval system for granting permanent residence to non-locals who graduate from a Shanghai university is discriminatory and blocks the free flow of the job market, according to one university president, Shanghai Daily reported. 

He Qinhua, president of East China University of Politics and Law and a deputy to the Shanghai People's Congress, has proposed changing the system.