"Their so-called 'fifty years without change' is hard to take seriously," a journalism student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong said, pointing out that the mainland itself is in constant change.
但更多的人不以為然，香港中文大學一位客座教授就認為，沒人能保證在鄧小平之後，中共不會有人認為意識型態比資本主義更重要。「所謂『五十年不變』也不能當真」，一位中大新聞系學生疑惑，大陸自己一直在變，「才說胡耀邦可靠，怎麼馬上又下台了？」