Girl, 14, on fast track to Peking University
By Cao Li | China Daily | Updated: 2009-11-26 07:44
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Fourteen-year-old Hong Xinge (also below) is besieged by reporters in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Tuesday after becoming one of the first students in China to be offered a new way into the prestigious Peking University. Hong earned a recommendation from the headmaster at Tianyi High School for an interview at the institution. She was the youngest of the 90 students who received such nominations nationwide. Chen Liang |
SHANGHAI: A 14-year-old female student from Jiangsu province is poised to step from the textbooks into the history books after she was tipped to enroll at one of China's top universities, thanks to a pilot program aimed at improving the country's university entrance system.
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