According to a report by CCTV, Wang Ming, 17, once dreamed of studying Chinese in college, but now has to realize her dream abroad, as her household registration will prevent her taking part in the forthcoming national college entrance examination in China.

 

Wang is a third year senior high school student in Beijing, and her school performance is very good. However, her household registration is in Hainan Province, which means that she can't take part in the college entrance examination in Beijing. Thus she went back to her hometown, wishing to take the exam there, only to find that the regulations of Hainan would not allow anybody who received high school education in other parts of China to take the exam there.

 

Thus her family planned to migrate to Australia, where Wang could fulfill her dream there. Recently, Wang's aunt, who lives in the US, sent her the good news that Wang could go to the US as an exchange student.

 

"If I go to the US as an exchange student, I will stay with an American family, which is safer, and also more economical. By the way, exchange students are not required to speak very good English," said Wang, although it will cost her at least 100 thousand yuan to study in the US for one year as an exchange student.

 

Wang's further plan is that she'll come back to China first after the one year in the US, to see whether she can take part in the college entrance examination or not at that time. If not, she will definitely have to study in other countries.

 

(Chinanews.cn April 6, 2007)