Quotable

"I have never traveled out of my county since I was born, now, I have the opportunity to see what the outside world looks like."

Zeng Mengyao, a 19-year-old girl in Le'an county, East China's Jiangxi province, will attend Xiamen University in Fujian province this fall. She is one of the many beneficiaries in China's poverty-stricken rural areas of a national preferential policy introduced by the Ministry of Education this year. A total of 12,100 seats in universities are allocated for students from 680 poverty-stricken counties in 21 provincial regions in 2012.