Now that her problem has been solved by the fund, Fan is very grateful to people who have contributed, and she is now trying to find more part-time jobs during her vacation. She said her greatest wish would be to study hard and make money to support her parents.

Among all the impoverished students, 18-year-old Xiao Ru earned the one of the highest scores of 597 in the college entrance exam.

Her mother needs money for kidney failure treatment, and she has brother and sister studying in schools. The whole family is supported by what her father earns by working temporary jobs.

According to Xiao's mother, she chose to enter an ordinary high school even though her score was high enough to get into a good high school, without telling anyone, in order to acquire a 6,000-yuan bonus from the school to pay for her mother's medical bills.

After the college entrance exam, Xiao found a job in a nearby restaurant, where she had to work for twelve hours a day. In the first days, her feet were swollen after working hard all day.

After receiving the funding aid, Xiao applied to a pharmacology program. She wishes to learn more about medicine to cure her mother and many other patients.

The West China Metropolis Daily reported previously that Shanghai Jiao Tong University student Chen Entao tutored eight school students during his spare time in order to fund fifteen impoverished students in Hubei Province, even though he himself had difficulties in paying tuition and had taken educational loans since he entered the university.

"I deeply understand the desire of an impoverished student to study because I had the same problem," Chen said. "Two or three hundred yuan can just pay for an urbanite's meal. But many poor students have to leave school because of lack of hundreds."

"If I can earn more money and spend less, the poor students just like me will be able to enter colleges," he added.