Chapter 57: Million-level graduates, this is China's trump card

After getting off the car and looking at the time of 4:30 in the morning, Lin Yan said a little embarrassedly:
"I'm sorry. I didn't expect to get a car so quickly. It's a bit too early to come here now. Martha, and friends in the live broadcast room, it looks like you'll have to wait for a while. But it won't be long. Based on my understanding of them, they will definitely take action in 30 minutes at most."

They sat on a bench in front of the school gate. Thinking that the early morning wind was a bit chilly, Lin Yan took the initiative to put his coat on Martha, fearing that she would catch a cold.

Martha was still in a daze, not sure if she was cold or frightened, and her speech was incoherent.

"Yan, Yan... Is what the master said just now true? He, he, he really sent his own child to college? How is this possible? He is obviously not very rich. He is still working hard driving a taxi so late at night. Can such a family afford to support a college student? His child is very smart, right? That's how it should be!"

Lin Yan spread his hands:

"Honestly, I don't know."

"well!?"

"This is the first time I met him. We just met by chance when we took a taxi. How can I know if he is just bragging or it's true?"

"But I don't think he's lying, does he?"

"Then why are you asking me if it's true?"

"Ah this..."

After talking nonsense, Martha felt a little embarrassed and scratched her head, which was so cute.

Lin Yan couldn't help laughing, and subconsciously reached out to give him a head pat, but suddenly realized that there seemed to be a heavyweight audience in the live broadcast room, so he withdrew his hand awkwardly.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. I don't know whether the driver was bragging or whether his child really went to college. But you are not curious about this, but wondering - can even ordinary working-class people afford universities in China?"

"If you are really asking this question, my answer is: Yes."

"I could even put it more bluntly."

"In China, let alone ordinary working class people, even if you are penniless and have to temporarily put aside your dignity and beg for a living on the street, as long as your children can get into college, your children can go to college!"

At this moment, the live broadcast room suddenly became as quiet as a needle.

"How can this be……"

Martha asked with difficulty: "Is it free to go to college in China?"

"Of course I don't want money, otherwise the master wouldn't have to worry about money so much. But this money is really not much."

Lin Yan said calmly, "For my four years of undergraduate study, my annual tuition was 5000 Chinese Yuan. Adding in accommodation, living expenses, and other necessary expenses, my total cost to graduate from college was less than 4 Chinese Yuan. If converted to the current gold price, it is worth about 1% of the small yellow croaker in your suitcase."

4 Chinese Yuan.

1% of 5 small yellow croaker.

With just this little money, you can support a four-year undergraduate student to graduate? That’s 4 years! 4 years!

The live broadcast room is in chaos at this moment!
"Damn it! 4 Chinese Yuan for 4 years? That doesn't even include living expenses? Damn it! When you wanted to go to college, even the university with the lowest offer was 25000 Chinese Yuan a year, and that was the cheapest, and that was just the tuition!"

"How can their universities be so cheap? My uncle finished college and it took him 20 years to pay off his student loan! I usually don't dare to ask him how much he spent on college!"

"With such low tuition, this must be the worst university in China! It has to be!"

"I don't know what university he went to, but the host's knowledge and conversation look like he graduated from a crappy school, don't you think?"

"God, if I had to face this kind of tuition-fee university, I would have gone to college! I also want to study on a college campus instead of rolling into a car shop to screw screws as soon as I grow up!"

"No, no... How can China immigrate there now? How many people are needed? My child will graduate from public high school soon, and I also want my child to go to college!!!"

The word "university" may have become commonplace in China imperceptibly, but in foreign societies, it is still a sacred place that can drive people crazy!

Why are Chinese universities so cheap? Their university professors, campus construction, books, patents...are these free?
Lin Yan specifically climbed over the firewall to go to Gudu and retrieved some data to show to Martha and the audience in the live broadcast room.

"This is the tuition guidance standard for each major in universities officially announced by Huaxia. Each university can flexibly adjust this standard, but in principle it cannot exceed 25%. This is an official policy document of Huaxia and cannot be faked. If you are interested, you can check it at any time."

Everyone was stunned!
The tuition fees for basic science subjects such as physics, biology, and chemistry are 4500-5000 per academic year!

Even for medicine, business, and other popular subjects that charge sky-high fees in foreign countries, the highest tuition is only 8000-10000! And it’s all in Chinese currency!
You should know that the tuition fee for the business school of the Ivy League College in the United States is 6 US dollars per academic year!
No wonder!
No wonder they in China can afford to go to university!
At this moment, everyone knelt down to China!

"Crazy! Huaxia is crazy! They are really doing charity! The university tuition is so cheap, I, I... Can I reincarnate into Huaxia in my next life?"

"My first reaction was that this was impossible. The tuition fee of several thousand Chinese yuan per person could not even cover the cost of university! How could anyone do something that would lose money? But then I remembered China's 'loss-making high-speed rail', and I felt that I had to believe it!"

"This... Think about it honestly. If college is really cheap enough for everyone to afford, how many elite talents will be cultivated every year? Even if their 'elite education' is not so sufficient, but hundreds of thousands of college graduates every year, what a terrifying force this will be."

"I just checked, it's true! The Google search results show that there were 1158 million undergraduate graduates in China last year!"

"How much? Ten million???"

"I'm crazy, I must be hallucinating. With tens of millions of college graduates every year, this world must be crazy!!!"

The old father suddenly stood up at this moment!
So that’s it!
So that's how it is!!!
Self-improvement is just a cover... No, it is too early to make a conclusion about these four words. But there is no doubt that this is the way China really rewrites its destiny!
"Knowledge alters your fate."

Lin Yan clenched his fist and said calmly to the camera in the live broadcast room: "It is true that there are many people and countries who have worked hard enough and toiled to death, but they have not been able to change their fate. This is really lamentable, and we Chinese have given our own answer to this."

"Didn't you ask us what happened in China thirty years ago? This question is too complicated. I can't explain it to you even if I spend a month on it. So, I decided to start with what I personally think."

“From that time on, we began to popularize university education. This strengthened our minds and let our hands know how to change our world!”

(End of this chapter)