Sina.com, together with Securities Times and a stockbrokerage firm, has opened a forum inviting comments on "what can be deployed to save the Chinese stock market". The author of the comment judged to be the best can win a new iPhone.

We can't be sure what criteria will be applied in the selection of prize winners among the hundreds of entries. You can go to http://finance.sina.com.cn/focus/2012stock/ to take a look.

From what we have read, there is one theme common among the many different proposals and that is: only one person can save the stock market. And I guess everybody can guess who. It's the government, of course.