A university in Chengdu, Sichuan province, has been criticized online for charging students fees to claim lost possessions.

Last week, a student at Sichuan University of Media and Communications lost her cellphone. When she borrowed a phone to dial her own number, a man at the university's security department answered the phone and asked her to come and get it, she said.

When she went to the department with a classmate, she was asked to pay 10 yuan ($1.50) before the phone was handed over.