More places at elite universities for rural students
High school seniors from Tianquan county in Yaan, Sichuan, walk onto their new campus at Chengdu Normal University in Chengdu on April 24. The county's 1,019 students, affected by the magnitude-7 Lushan earthquake, will attend the national college entrance examination next month. Wang Ruobing / for China Daily |
Major universities have been urged to enroll more students from rural areas in a major effort to promote equality in education.
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