favoring the rich in China

" In the 1970s, 50% of freshmen at Tsinghua University, alma mater of China’s president, Xi Jinping, were from poorer, rural areas, according to Yang Dongping of Beijing Institute of Technology. In 2010 that figure was down to 17%. Tan Wufeng, who teaches communications at Tsinghua, says she was shocked to find her freshman classes this year contained not one student from rural China."