Zhang Yuyang: The globetrotting self-starter

Zhang Yuyang, 27, went overseas to study when she graduated from middle school at the age of 15.

In 2007, having earned a full scholarship, she attended a high school in Singapore, and then stayed abroad until she gained a master's in July.

In 2011, she went to the American University in Washington for undergraduate studies, during which she spent a semester as an exchange student at Ritsumeikan University in Japan.