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South China Morning Post
14 hours ago
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Chinese teen's suicide puts crushing academic pressure in the spotlight
A heart-wrenching suicide note left by an 18-year-old girl who killed herself in April has reignited discussion online about the heavy academic burden placed on children in China. In the letter, the girl – who was in her final year at a top high school in Bengbu, a city in the central province of Anhui – wrote about the pressure she felt to do well and said she had been broken by relentless exams, particularly maths and physics. 'I cannot bear how you meticulously checked the scores of all the examinations and tests. I cannot bear how my scores appeared frequently in the text messages between you and your friends and relatives. But then you were afraid that I might see them and you secretly deleted them afterwards,' the girl said in the letter written on the back of school test sheets, which was posted on social media recently. The girl said she had been so stressed that she could not eat the day before an exam, and that the stress had become so severe that she had decided to end her life. The girl had been attending a high school in Bengbu, Anhui province. Her father said in a text message sent to friends and relatives that his daughter had hidden her feelings, and he urged other parents to pay more attention to their children's mental health . He said in the message, which was circulated online, that she had always done well in exams and usually had the highest or second highest marks in the class. The girl's death is far from an isolated incident in China – official statistics show deaths by suicide among children and adolescents are on the rise. And experts say excessive schoolwork, and pressure from the traditional notion that academic achievement is the only path to success, are factors.
Associated Press
27-05-2025
- Automotive
- Associated Press
The 7th Smart Sensor Industry Development Conference opens in Bengbu
BENGBU, China, May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On May 24, the 7th Smart Sensor Industry Development Conference kicked off in Bengbu, Anhui Province and attracted over 700 experts and enterprise representatives. The event has been held in Bengbu for six consecutive sessions since 2017, emerging as a key platform to boost the innovative development of the city's smart sensor sector and its leapfrog transformation from a technology chaser to an industry leader. In recent years, Bengbu has concentrated efforts on building China Sensor Valley through collaborative innovation involving government, industry, academia, research, finance, application, and service. It has gathered more than 200 enterprises engaged in the smart sensor sector, including 69 high-tech companies and 40 provincial-level 'little giant' SMEs (that specialize in niche sector, command a high market share, and have strong innovative capacity and core technologies). The city is also home to the only enterprise in Anhui Province that has both integrated circuit and MEMS wafer production lines, which is rare even nationwide. Themed 'Chip Convergence in Jianghuai, Smart Sensing for the World', this session of the conference focused on cutting-edge fields such as automotive, medical, and robotics. At its opening ceremony, the 2025 ReportonChina MEMS Industry Development and Top 10 High-Quality SensorIndustrialParks was released, in which Bengbu Economic Development Zone is included. Enterprises showcased innovative achievements including ultra-low noise bio-signal acquisition chips and multi-channel EEG acquisition systems, and announced the successful trial production of the first batch of products from 8-inch MEMS wafer production line. Scheduled to achieve a monthly capacity of 30,000 wafers, with 10,000 wafers attainable by the end of this year, this production line will become a core force in China's micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) industry. During the event, 3 innovation platforms including the Yangtze River Delta (Bengbu) Industry-Education Integration Collaborative Center and the Automotive Intelligent Sensing Special Committee were inaugurated, housing settlement allowances were granted to 5 high-level talents, and agreements on 20 key projects were signed, which injected new momentum into the development of this industry. Source: 7th Smart Sensor Industry Development Conference Contact person: Ms. Cao, Tel: 86-10-63074558
