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Video: From Harvard to schools in rural areas

New Voices is our website's video special with a focus on young people. In this episode, we interviewed Zhang Xinjie, who quit a PhD program abroad to teach in rural areas. Born in 1992, he was a research assistant at Harvard University's economics department and a PhD economics student at the National University of Singapore. In order to combine his study and research with life in the countryside, he chose to quit the PhD program to teach in rural areas, traveling deep into the countryside to study the education system.

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