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Huang Yanru, a member of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has proposed shortening the current 12-year elementary, middle, and high school education to 9 years, to allow young people to begin their work and plan their life earlier. Do you support this and why? China Daily's mobile phone news readers share their views:

I am a 23-year-old senior college student who is about to graduate in the second half of the year, but have no knowledge of society. After working for two or three years, I'll probably get married and have a child, but if I want to progress in my career, I have to delay my marriage and perhaps miss my best childbearing years. Therefore, I think it would be better for students to have five years of primary education and three years of college education.

LIANGJINHUI, Xinxiang, Henan province