China Scene: West

University student waits tables to pay tuition fees

A high school graduate and his mother are working extra hours during the summer break at a Chongqing restaurant to make enough money for his university tuition fees.

Xiong Pan, the high school graduate, who has recently been admitted to a local university, said his father has been paralyzed for 15 years, and his mother had worked very hard to pay for his school tuition.