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6/15/2015

Topic Reading-Vol.1160-6/15/2015

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
The army of parents behind China’s children
Why so many gaokao topic readings? Think of the magnitude of expectations by unprivileged families in China. Over nine million students took this year’s national college entrance exams while around 7.5million students have just graduated from college. Of the millions of college graduates, no more than half of them had found a job before graduation in 2013. So what is going to happen when these serious test takers graduate from college four years later while economic growth is slowing? The question is if they don’t try to enter good college, are there better or other options for the only child those Chinese parents have in such a competitive society?
It seems that this controversial one-time test is regarded as a better chance for most of the parents and students in China to stay or join the middle class and enjoy modern and materialized lives that those parents might have dreamed for.
Enjoy reading and thinking if you’d spend a half of the day studying to prepare for once-a-year life changing exam or try to develop unique strength to develop your own business or profession.


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