This week in the strange and quirky stories from China, a man entered a zoo enclosure with 11 white tigers, a grandson tries to live up to his iconic grandfather and statues in Shenzhen bring smiles to Chinese people. Police in China detained a 56-year-old man for entering a zoo enclosure at the Beijing Wildlife Park that is home to.
A man who battled extreme poverty and family hardship to achieve academic excellence has moved China to tears with his story that has attracted more than 770 million views online.
Huang Guoping grew up without shoes and had to catch eels to pay for school tuition. Then the deaths of his grandmother and father left him orphaned, and while he used education to recover, the experience of extreme poverty left a lasting impression.
Huang revealed the story as part of his doctoral candidate dissertation. A teacher recently posted the story online to help motivate students.
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