Despite student's remarks, poverty is not to be thanked

WANG XINYI, an 18-year-old woman who has been enrolled by Peking University, one of China's top universities, after doing well in the national college entrance exam said in a recent article: "Thank you poverty." Beijing News comments:

"Although it narrows my vision, stabs my self-esteem, and even takes the lives of my loved ones indirectly, I still want to say, thank you, poverty," Wang wrote.

The state of "working hard, being hungry, and living with lack" is not worthy of praise and encouragement. What is worthy of praise is Wang's own efforts to improve her life and that of her family. People should realize that Wang was admitted to Peking University, not because her family was poor, but because she was tenacious in her efforts to improve her future. Her admission to the university was the result of her own hard work, not the result of her poverty.