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With hundreds of thousands of Chinese students vying for a limited number of places, Fang Dezhi, an 18-year-old computer science student, could count himself as one of the privileged who have obtained a place in the prestigious public research Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States.

For more than two years, Fang, a native of Altay, a city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in northwestern China, received intense preparation to enter a higher level academic institution in North America.