Students use summer less for playing outdoors

BEIJING - Although about 30 days have passed since the start of this year's summer holiday, Zong Zheng has only left his home in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, five times.

The boy, a 17-year-old in the 11th grade at a high school affiliated with Nanjing University, said he gets great enjoyment from reading comic books, collecting small pillows and logging onto the Internet to watch cosplay girls - real people who don costumes to look like fictional characters or celebrities.

Meanwhile, Liu Wenjia, a high school student at the Nanjing Foreign Language School, said she often uses her time away from classes to read books and play computer games.