23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Chinese student says family only bought TV recently after her acceptance to top university
A Chinese secondary school graduate has told how her family only bought a television after she was accepted by the country's top Peking University, sparking a heated online debate over parenting.
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Tian Chang is a senior secondary school student at Zhengzhou Foreign Language School, in central China's Henan province.
She was recently recommended for admission to Peking University's Burmese language programme, months ahead of this year's gaokao, or national entrance examination, in June.
This means liberation from the stressful business of college entrance examination preparations earlier.
In an interview with Henan TV, she said her family celebrated by buying their first ever television.
Tian Chang says she has no problem with her parents' strict approach to education. Photo: Baidu
Tian said her parents did not let her play with phones when she was little, even though she owned her own smartphone.
