More HK students attending mainland universities

More Hong Kong students are choosing to study at universities in the Chinese mainland after significant development of its higher education system in recent years.

There were 15,700 Hong Kong students at more than 300 mainland universities as of June, and 361 mainland universities have enrolled more than 7,000 new Hong Kong students for the new semester, according to the Ministry of Education.

This year, students from Hong Kong can apply to 112 universities on the mainland without first taking the national college entrance exam, known as the gaokao.