A Stolen Life: The tragedies of low-class students in China | Gaokao
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- Under China's current social structure, it is difficult for people from the lower class to enter the upper class of society. For most children from the lower class, going to college is the most important way to change their destiny. China's college entrance exam system, on the surface, uses test scores to determine whether or not a student qualifies for college. However, this seemingly fair system is fraught with uncertainty for the less powerful, especially children from rural areas, due to corruption in admissions and impersonation by the privileged class.
Chen ChunXiu , a woman from a farming family in Shandong, China, took the college entrance exam 16 years ago, but did not receive a letter of admission from any school. After making inquiries, she learned that her admission letter, which belonged to her 16 years ago, had been sent to another student in the same county, whose test scores were so low that she had no chance of going to university.
Another case is Gou Jing, she received a letter from her homeroom teacher, Mr. Qiu , who told her that his daughter had replaced her at the university in Beijing in 1997.
Gou's story has triggered a storm of public opinion on the Chinese Internet. In June, the Beijing News, a well-known Chinese media outlet, published an investigative report confirming Gou's story. In July, relevant government authorities in Shandong Province released the results of their investigation. The investigation claimed that Gou Jing's two college entrance exam results were both at the level of a junior college. The homeroom teacher's daughter went to a technical secondary school in Beijing on Gou Jing's behalf, not the famous Chinese university as rumored.
The report claimed that 15 people had been dealt with "according to the rules and regulations," with the vast majority receiving "warnings" as punishment.
As a result, Gou is in an even greater predicament. On the Chinese Internet, all kinds of vicious attacks and curses were directed at her, claiming that she had exaggerated her own tragedy, fooling the public, and even calling for legal punishment of Gou Jing. There is hardly any article or discussion questioning whether the official investigation result is true. Many articles are praising the government for correcting mistakes when they find them.
"When an ordinary individual challenges the system, I already have a premonition of my own petty fate." Gou Jing wrote at the end of her Weibo post on July 5, "Those who are awake don't need to be called on, those who sleep don't wake up."
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To her father, no, you're not useless. You did everything you could for your daughter. Everything that happened here is completely out of your control.
He's never ever ever going to see your comment
@@rudyfromhouston8811 doesn't matter
@@rudyfromhouston8811 maybe not her father, but it might reach other parents who believe that they failed their child in a system that is set against them. And it may reach daughters and sons that realize that their parents did their best to give us a better life even when it was hard.
There was no need to make such a comment.
@@nopetheworld977 Nobody poor in China will ever see a comment like this. Its a crime and a technical hurdle to overcome even to access youtube.
@@kevinpiala6258 i was deciding if i want to respond or not, but i just don’t understand why you want to reply in such a way on a positive and supportive comment? i don’t know, it’s just- if the comment doesn’t have any value to you then… just move on?
and yeah, as you and the first reply mentioned, maybe no one in China will ever see this. most of the world won’t see it. but what about someone from a low income household in the UK? a parent struggling to pay for their children’s tuition in the US? and many others from around the world. this comment could be a supportive comment for them and could show that someone cares. so it might not mean anything to you, but a word of sympathy can go a long way. and yeah, it might not be the same exact extreme situation as in China shown in the video, but poverty and money-struggles exists everywhere. so why does it matter so much who sees a support comment that sends out sympathy for the father??
it baffles me.
Bruh, it breaks my heart when farmers are like, "I'm just a farmer." Like nah my guy, you feed the nation. You is the nations backbone.
@GREATLIFESUCKS GREAT indeed ,but why are you so salty? Do you hate people so much to even judge a person who wants to enlighten a farmer? Maybe your just some guy who topples people so you can feel superior.
@GREATLIFESUCKS GREAT so you didnt get my point? But why dont you answer my question? Its really not hard. Why are you salty?
@GREATLIFESUCKS GREAT looking at your username I can only guess things aren't looking too great for you rn. If you want to talk or vent you can vent on me.
@Suburban Cyber Goth I’m sorry but nope! Farmers are the help. They don’t make serious decisions or part of the elite. Most farmers are poor.
@GREATLIFESUCKS GREAT We got a fucking wumao hahaha
Unforgivably unfair to ruin the girl's chances in life by taking advantage of the fact that her father was a peasant who had no resources to fight for justice.
so much for a "people's republic" and rule of law...
@@STScott-qo4pw Government Officials' Republic of Corrupt CCP
Other countries should be swooping in and taking people like this. If China doesn’t want these brilliant hard working minds, fuck em - take them. Get them to boost other economies, fuck the CCP.
Yeah, like at most, maybe allow both of them to go, no ruining a poor person's life
This is honestly heart breaking. The most productive members of society having their lives stolen by lazy dishonorable people.
A society that doesn't respect it's intellectuals has decapitated itself.
Communism is heaven for the lazy and hell for the working
Communism is heaven for the lazy and hell for the working
@@rattusrattus1713 I think corruption is just human nature. Haven't you heard about celebrities and millionaires paying their way into Ivy League schools in the USA?
@@rattusrattus1713 this is not to defend what happened however. I just think that in both communism (even though China isn't actually communist) and capitalism this can be achieved through making the system more transparent , whatever that may mean.
This is sad to hear and swallow. Just because she is poor and her father is nobody she is robbed by some people with connections.
It is the same in America, the poor are robbed by thug cops and city "fathers," Free Mason garbage heap, people. Unchristian, but proclaiming they are, with public deeds and private lives that differ, (Their ELITES only.) But, The Lord is Coming, and the higher Up "Free Masonic elites" are going to get toasted. And Not "with Champagne." Very Corrupt System here TOO. Steer clear of "their Charities" these are "Whited Sepulchers," Jesus despised these modern day Pharisees...my father was one, high up, he quit and got murdered in a "hit and run." Never solved, 50+ years ago. Pensacola, FL, a USN MILITARY OFFICER. FOUR KIDS AND HIS "SELL OUT WIFE." Lisa Rae Rousseau ✝️
This can happen anywhere and to anyone who is rich or poor, it's called identity theft.
@@lisasmith516 bruh what did you even say. I was following you for the first sentence and then you lost me
@@lisasmith516 the fuck are you talking about?
@@lisasmith516 America is way more privileged compared to countries like these. Poor asians like these, when sent to america, work hard to send money home and somehow become successful. America and the world outside are NOT the same. Read the room
Corruption truly ruin so many lives. That woman’s hard earned grades got snatched by some lazy ass rich kid and nothing was done about it. Just hearing that people with a lot of money and connections are knowingly ruining someone’s future because of their own selfishness makes me sick.
Edit: wow! 1,9k likes mom I’m famous!
In America this kind of extreme corruption favoring the stupid and lazy but wealthy and well-connected, over the smart and industrious but poor and non-connected goes on openly. Rich people openly lavish gifts upon universities to get their kids into the universities, at the expense of those not so well-off. It's easy to see, you can find their names all over the buildings.
@@eitkoml America doesn’t even need the corruption. Colleges are already extremely costly and scholarships and admission is based on many factors like sports, extracurricular activities like playing instruments, cultural activities, debating, clubs etc. Most of the time only rich parents can afford this for their children.
@@MashZ false....so many scholarships available that pay it all, not to mention that sometimes you can even strike off part of your college loan for certain things. Besides, smart people go to community colleges first for a two year degree, which is really cheap, and then finish off at a regular college/uni at essentially half or 2/3 the cost. Just because you're stupid and paid the full amount doesn't mean all do
Chinese comics makes sense now to me!!
The country will implode on themselves if this is how they act. If enough dumbass kids get into important Chinese positions or companies then there's no doubt the country will crumble in the long run. It's sad for that woman but at least there's some hope at the end.
They didn't just steal her future, they destroyed her family
A normal day in china
Honestly can’t believe they didn’t go to jail or even got heavily fined. They deserve justice
lol you do know China's system and government is a piece of shit. why expect justice. They are literally the nazi's of todays society committing genocide. These events weren't even that bad compared to the concentration camps they run.
@@kuyanatnatdkrx7 I think they are worse than nazis, cause the nazis at least documented everything they did...
This is china, not America
@@kuyanatnatdkrx7 I mean even Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin spent a few days in jail for the Stanford admissions scandal, where they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to fake charities and had someone take the admission test so their dumb kids could steal a spot of someone deserving
@@gensischosen251 well the ccp is currently holding Falun gong practitioners and and Uyghurs in "Re-education" camps.
People in my country just pay for others to take the test for them. You realise just how many idiots there are when you meet them in college and they can't do basic crap. The crappy part is they can even end up being your boss one day, doing the same crap at their job, taking credit for your work and when they do mess up (and they always do) have no fear they'll get fired because of those connections. Avoid workplaces with suspiciously high turnover rates, one of them could be in charge there.
What country is it?
frfr
That's how you get idiots managing the country. And those idiots don't even understand how many structures failed because of idiocy, how much unnecessary money is used to maintain failed projects. So much waste of tax-payers money, so many deaths of innocent people because idiots just want a job but don't know how to get the job done.
@@anarchistangler Countries. Plural.
well that was an unexpectedly good advice, Thank kind stranger
That whole system is fucked.. You’ll never get 16 years of life back smh
Yeah
When reading the video title I expected "stolen life" to be figuratively, for some missing opportunity, not actual identity theft that leads to a stolen life in such literal meaning
its both
I find the Chinese proverb: 'If you can't fix the problem, fix the person asking the question' deeply disturbing.
Yeah from "mao " red book who purged millions of citizens and his colleagues whom he suspected
It's sort of turning the Greek aphorism of killing the messenger on its head: "Definitely shoot the messenger!"
It's meant to be, tow the line or things could get even worse for you even though you were the one wronged.
It’s not a Chinese proverb.
Looks like you have misinterpreted it. Anyways, the whole episode is shameful.
they basically swapped one Chinese person for another and hoped no one noticed
Rinji jake : not too hard when there’re 1.4 billions. lol
and i woulda gotten away with it too if not for you meddling peasants
probably they swapped her with Scarlett Johanson
Not funny mate
…so basically an Einstein for a dumb dumb? 😵💫
Some background knowledge: The major way for a Chinese to move from lower class to upper class is the gaokao test, namely national college entrance exam. Educational and social resources are very limited for lower-class students. If failed in the gaokao test, they have to work in one of the factories in the world factory country for their rest of life.
They can never take it again?
@@terenarosa4790 they can take it once a year. Most people dont try after their second attempt because it's a soul crashing amount of studying
@@justarandomdude7754 a lot of Chinese students study around 9-12 hrs per day for this test, it's truly disturbing
bro fuck off 😂 it said even in the video that for the first woman that didn't go to university she became a teacher, not a factory worker. some many drones giving you the updoot clearly having forgotten what they just watched or not watched it at all.
@@phoenixwright7802 she was fortunate enough to be a kindergarten teacher
This is likely very common in Shandong. It is very corrupt with many “little emperors” and corrupt police.
I spent 2 and 1/2 years there starting back in '03. You are very correct.
Is the same in all countries around the world. Just in different ways. We are all under some suppressing government. We could be living at our full potential, but we are stock here with the governments of the world
@@LG141602 oh look, a wu mao. How cute.
@@dogcarman he's not wrong. Corruption is universal
looks like we can beat china if their poeple are againts the ccp.....mmmmmmmm yes
I watched her documentary before.. it's so heartbreaking.. too much. It's like stealing someone's fate..
It’s always weird when someone who is doing something shameful accuses the person exposing their shameful behaviour of bringing shame to them. It is them who deserve whatever disgrace is coming to them. They fear the truth.
Chinese mentality.
Reminds me of politicians suing for defamation when women leaks evidence about something bad they did
Part of it is trying to save face. But I believe a major part is that shame is externally controlled. You don't feel shame if you dance naked in your living room with the blinds closed, but you will if people look through the windows. Thus, to them if it weren't for these nosy busybodies, they would not have felt shame and loss of face
do you know that feeling of hating someone SO BAD, you just wanna kill them? She probably felt that
I felt that and I'm just watching this
I wanted a death penalty in that case too and I'm not Chinese. I can easily see why such fraud would destroy the basis for an individual's life AND destroy the main meritocratic institution of society.
So.. to graduate the university, they don’t need to study that hard. Why would they make it like there is no way to graduate university if students are not top 3 in their classes.
Its not about graduating university. It is about putting people into buckets early as the economy is being fully controlled by the government. They need people at the top (rulers) and the labourers (everyone else). If everyone is a ruler, then who is gonna be working as a labourer? That can't happen for a country of 1 billion, so the rigid system in place
@@deathempire70 and too bad, we ended up with dumber rulers than their laborers.
Its all about keeping up faces. If they flunked gaokao, not only they would embarass themselves, but also their family name.
@@boooomerwang Ding ding ding. Name is powerful in China.
@@boooomerwang well, they deserve it if they couldn't do well. Not steal another person's success.
On first sight the Chinese system of college qualifying exams seems fair. It gives hope to the lower classes to be able to advance in society. But finally it seems to be just a sham as the connected people take advantage of the system.
I have been told that the system can be gamed in such a way in the past and finally there is the proof to it.
It's a pretty bad system though. Stupid people who can memorize get into universities, while smart people who are good at abstract thinking, but a bit worse at memorization get into worse places. Of course you need to be able to memorize some stuff to a certain degree, but at the end of the day it won't bring any advancement. You'll only be able to fulfill a task, which was chosen by others. The stuff which actually leads to the advancement is the abstract thinking.
There are still a handful of graduates who are _actually_ smart though.
@@ThePandafriend But this might be a problem of how the test is performed.
Anyhow, there are limited number of places at the best Universities and somehow you want to allocate them.
I would think that without these tests stupid rich kids would fill up even more positions at the top notch places.
On the flip side, it is actually what is keep CCP down from growing any further. With a corrupt system, they really won't be able to cultivate a genuine intellectuals that would actually make huge contributions to their technological, scientific, and economic advancements. This is precisely why they are hell bent on stealing tech from other countries rather than doing actual R&D.
@@cafelatte1124 Chinese companies "steal" IP because they can get away with it. E.g. through some joint ventures with some forced (limited) know how sharing or by outright spying/stealing know how/trade secrets.
Access to the Chinese market is the bargaining chip.
Before Trump there might not have been enough pressure to change that.
This helps to develop the economy faster, and there is lot' s of research and development done to buil upon that. Reaching the same level that the chinese economy is at would have taken much longer else.
Let' s hope something will change. But it is too late for the non-chinese companies that were seriosly hurt or destroyed by these practices.
I would argue no system is fair- rich people will always have access to better tutors and teachers, Its the same in america its easier to get into a top 20 uni if you live in a good area and are rich becuase you have acess to good teachers, exteracirrulars and admissions coulselors that you can afford to pay tens of thousands of dollars to. Its not that poor people and people who live in low funded schools cant get into harvard its more that its way harder to get into those schools if youre poor
Stollen identity or identity theft- it’s really worst and everyone who failed those students needs to compensate them because they stole their life.
They destroy 16 years of her life!
It's not just in China. In most of Asia, the only sure way to break out of poverty it to be an extreme nerd and ace every exam until you land a government job that pays well, comes with power and you can be one of the highest government official by the end of your career. The legitimate money, power and connections you make in the career would make you part of the elite class
Not just in Asia but the UK as well, the level of social inequality here is just behind the US.
yes, and that's called feudalism...
@@chiarayavhnoska966 there is a key difference here. In the feudal age, most titles were inherited, and the peasants could do nothing, but remain peasants, until they die, and they kids too, and their kids after that. Having an exam which could potentially change that, is like holding a gladiator tournament, where the top fighter becomes part of the elite. This is pretty much the ideal scenario that can be. There is no such thing as "everyone is equal", and that people have 0 control over other people, with no external desires like money, and people only work because they genuinely like what they do. Thats some star trek nonsense
@@MoonCherryLove i shouldn't have skipped some logical steps evidently, but my point is exactly that, following in mere theories about capitalism, the main improvement from feudalism to capitalism should be more *vertical mobility* of the meritocratic type, which is what you seem to believe it's going on in the present world economy. but do you really?have you watched the video? or are we watching it solely to believe that this chinese shit show is 'communism'? LOL. 'cause, honestly, anyone who saw the video should have gathered that instead feudalism always comes back 'cause humans come with irrational greed, being only primates after all, maybe creating new social hierarchies, but still based on *who you are*, whom you're connected with in the social hierarchies, presenting itself as corruption and nepotism that defy both efficiency on a systemic level, and of course the mocked notion of meritocracy, whether said economy is pretending to be capitalistic or socialist is entirely irrelevant for the purpose of a healthy society that rewards actual hard work and talent.
Also, fyi, in the pure theory of capitalism inheritances are a no-no, because, like you pointed out, that's feudal distribution of wealth, based on *who* you are, not what you can contribute to the satisfaction of any social need.
...or why are we watching these videos?
This video kind of showed that it doesn't matter how hard you study or how smart or capable you are, if you're not already part of the elite class you will be rejected and all your hard work stolen by those who are less deserving and intelligent but wealthier and more powerful
The more I learn about China, the less I am surprised when I hear these stories.
My prayers are with all those who still find the strength to continue in the actual hell on earth IN CHINA under the ccp
@Prem Kumar My prayers go to them as well , this video was referring to the plight of Chinese citizens, even those forced to join china like inner mongol , Tibet,
@Prem Kumar I believe the CCP Demise will make it harder for struggling country to fight corruption even authoritarian Regim it's corrupt money that gives them sway
My prayers to 40mil homeless and 80mil with no medical protecion in usa
Hell on earth? How?
In which way does prayers help anybody but yourself? I try to boycott China and I vote for politicians supporting democracy around the World. I am first of all concerned about those giving up the struggle.
Reminds me of a Story a Colleague told me about his experience in College ( Canada). He's is ethnically Chinese but was born in Vietnam and left as refugee when Vietnam fell. When he entered College he was invited to join the CCP err I mean Chinese Student Union. There big selling point was they could obtain the University Exams Early ( basically Cheat).
He declined.
I am just curios.
It was interesting the story.
I am not sure whether the story was true or not.
However the comment by the @icephoenix was intriguing.
Ice phoenix had been quite supportive with the government although he or she might only had been visiting China. In this regard, I consider it a bias.
If I am wrong in anyway please correct me.
@@icephoenix3565 curious 好奇
@@icephoenix3565
Whatever you says wumao
Similar stuff happened in the US, where parents 'paid' to get their kids in (eventually the parents ended 'in'... the big-house).
Presumably other kids at the bottom end were bumped off.
The tragedy in China is the most deserving students are bumped off (and the offenders get off lightly).
Ya, but can still get a great job even without college
@@AA-yt9ch This is China, not the US.
@@AA-yt9ch what ditch diggers and factory workers?
@@esmeraldagreen1992 police officer, tradesmen, trucker, skilled labor
@@esmeraldagreen1992
Never heard about trade school?
Some skilled labor like plumber make more Money in US than most office Jobs
Well this happened in ancient China. Nothing changed much in the Chinese Empire. In every golden age of its empire, there will always be the downtrodden, there will always be injustice.
old habits never die
Do you have anything concrete to back that assertion up? That just because the imperial system was different that it was necessarily unfair? Under the imperial system there are many cases of poor students who studied for the exams and passed with honors, who rose to the highest positions possible. That the law, which was old, well established and known by all, was not enforced fairly for the most part?
You should know that, even when central administration was breaking down towards the end of the late 1800's due to court intrigue and corruption, European legal experts were amazed at how well the bureaucratic and legal system retained its integrity away from the center despite that. That the system was so resilient as to be able to resist the central breakdown, and still carry on regardless, and to the observers secure a great deal of legal justice to ALL.
When historians talk about the chaos of China towards the end of the imperial period, they are referring to the political center. Not until the very end did society finally collapse with the utter absence of any centralized government.
@@a.westenholz4032 Yes there are proves of cheats in Imperial China. People actually found answer sheets hidden in a 1000 yard pipe directly connected to the test site.
Another way for the upper class to rig the system is to control the knowledge source. Books, teachers, etc.
@@a.westenholz4032 Are you perhaps a historian with access to the library of the original archives? 😀 I doubt the Qing officials would keep hardcopies of peasant complaint forms so that the people in the future can study them thoroughly.
@@havu-xq4ip He wants proof of complaint forms like in a ISO Audit. Hardcopies. But to my knowledge the departmental complaint hotline at that time havent existed yet.
The competitiveness of parent, society & culture … kill their own children & steal their souls… a very sickening social norm
This is actually really sad and makes me pissed that some people are willing to use the lowest most despicable methods to get into a college. Those imposters took away the future of people already at disadvantage.
CPC does many things well, but corruption is not one of them. At least on the local scale.
Best wishes for the victims!
i had depression when i was in high school. i developed friendship with one of my teachers because of that. unlike many other teachers she taught us stuffs outside curriculum, like how to be a proper human being etc. i admired her so much and appreciated how much she cared about our mental health. anyways, we seemed to get too close. due to my depression i also started to self-harm (mostly for attention). she advised me to suspend school and come back the next year. i fully trusted her so i did as she advised. immediately after i suspended school she deleted me on her contact list and refused to connect with me. the next year i tried to come back to school and the school administrators told me i was no longer their student and that i could not go there anymore. it was not how we originally agreed upon.... turned out the school felt like i was a shame for them, they wanted to get rid of me. they didnt want me because i had depression and i was too dramatic. my lifes completely fucked up bc of their deceptive approach to get rid of me. i was a straight A student and could have gone to a good university, had a good job, lived a good life. now im fucked up. helpless. cuz i only have a high school diploma. the school name is 花都区秀全中学 :) im so freaking angry watching this video and thinking about my past.
I’m so sorry to hear that ;(
She doesn't deserved to be called a teacher.
Hope you find your path to greater success one day. 🙏
@@mz2535 thank u... immigration is not an option for me... its difficult for chinese citizen to move overseas unless they r rich... my futures bleak, im super lost in direction.. but i'll try to remain positive :)
@@invisi6l339 work hard and pay for a course in europe so you can get visa! Leave that country as soon as you can!!!
Lol that's ur fault
There was once case about a week ago in my country where a boy got accepted into a military school. His name was shown in TV, but when he was going to re-registration, he was rejected. He was being told that his name wasn't there, but someone else's name. Thankfully because of Social Media, the government check his name again and finally found his. They apologize as they said there was at miscommunication. Now he is a military student.
This reminds me when my mom was not allowed to attend university in the ussr because she didn't want to join the party at 16 when everyone else did, then her teachers found out she was christian so they purposely lowered her grades
Now in Russia isn't Christian the main religion and of you aren't Orthodox you are shunned?
@@carochan86 yeah Orthodox Christianity is the main religion but during Soviet times they denounced any religion. You can see this in modern china now
@@elijahperalta3652 communism is always like that, they hate religions.
@Unknown Player if you live in The West and refuse to go woke, you get unpersoned and fired from your job anyway.
@@carochan86 Not during the USSR. Communism is officially atheist, and as a result religion was persecuted under Communist regimes. This is why if you check the religious demographics of Warsaw Pact countries, there is a significantly larger portion of "unaffiliated" as compared to the rest of Europe.
What a horrible life for young people . There is more to life than money . So sad .
This is why the Bible says not to serve Mammon/Money. I pray the Chinese people have a massive Christian revival and many, MANY are saved.
…tell me again when you are flat broke 🤧
@@PP-vf1kx Yes, people with a full belly, a roof over them, a car, medicine, clothes, shoes, necessities and extras, fun things, they can do, luxuries...yep there is 'More to life than "Money," there's ALL those "THINGS" money was exchanged for. I am Christian and have had nearly everything stolen, or manipulated out of my ownership by the pig swill corruption of our city, state and local organized thugs. CORRUPT LUCIFERIANS called Free Masons, a system that is all over our World and accepts all colors, religions So LONG as you are willing to Serve THEM. SO, anyone who says there's more to life than money is either a homeless person who is able to survive somehow, and is very philosophical and/or downtrodden and hopelessly managing one more day, or they're just DELUDED. 😋🔫
The money is not the problem but this stupid education system.
You don't need all this years wasted in useless memorization to make money
@@EQOAnostalgia there are Christian groups in China too.
This made me cry , how hard it is for rural area students to go to college and she passed but still didn't able to get into college 😔😔😔 .
Yes... and someone lazy stole it all from her...
Corruption of this scale and magnitude is soo deep, even your class mates, teachers and family will exploit you just to get ahead.
This society is completely sick and disgusting.
I’d like to share a similar story from my country, just like in China, the university entrance exam in Vietnam is one high stakes exam that can literally determines one’s life. 2-3 years ago there was a hugh scandal involving local officials and many people of high social status in a small province, Ha Nam. These officials took advantage of their status and relations to illegally increase their children’s test scores who partaked in the exam in that same year, or as we called it “bought the scores”. A national investigation was conducted and there turned out to be a wide network of high class people who bought the scores for their children using their money and relationships, making you think how many times they’ve done this being suspected, people only suspected when it was a poor and small province like Ha Nam all of a sudden had examiee with highest scores in the whole country and surprised everyone. Thinking that some stupid rich lazy little brats who would go brag about how hard they studied to “earn themselves” a slot in the most prestigious schools in the whole country when in reality they stole it from someone, just makes my blood boil. I did get accepted to the school that I want, but think about all other peers who got their opportunities stolen from them, and thought to themselves that they were not good enough and all the hard works eventually didn’t pay off, seriously to a 17 year old kid, that’s depressing and heartbreaking af.
This is so common in China . My sister was qualified as a college teacher which is a very good job in China . But there’s a high official daughter took her job . The school arranged a fake exam to allow 3 people to take part in the exam , the other two were taking the exam for government show ( public schools are under control of communisity party ). No matter how well you did on the exam , the person from rich powerful family is always the number one who is “ qualified “ for the job .
so sad to hear, makes me grateful that my parents moved to north america so that I can have a better life.
Were u born in China?
@jennifer this happens in North America too difference is it's kept hushed. Recently it was exposed that some rich people were involved in college admission scandal (fraud) . Look it up
@@chicalatin7367 it’s happened, but it is nowhere near this bad in America.
It's same everywhere...if you're poor , the world's against you...😑😑😑
poor and not attractive is a nightmare combination, no chance at all.
if you're just poor, but got beautiful face, no matter how dumb you're, you still got a chance.
The most corrupt nation on Earth
Every nation is currupt, just look at the Cvid 1-9 scam
@@BangtaiL_WitcH No -- China is the most corrupt, and most completely corrupt. You have no argument here. Everyone knows that.
Come visit Ukraine or Russia
@@yorkhunt1251
Lol...
@@BangtaiL_WitcH lol at you and your ilk. Laughing to keep us from crying.
Thanks for bringing this up!
In India it is 100 % legal without any extra bribe but flat 90-100% OFF called CAST BASED RESERVATION. 😅😶
Haa Yr... laghbhg 5000 yrs se. Cast based reservation ka mja lo😂
All that hardwork and determination only to be snatched by some undeserving rich kid.
I saw an agreement paper signed from china given to nepalese students from Nepal. It was a scholarship program where they tell the students to go to the top medical university or so it said in china to learn. Fishy right? Also they were giving away I think 3000 RMB or something. Ofcourse they will be teaching in chinese. So basically in short you are giving away your nationality.
Learning in Chinese isn’t bad. Most of these students that go on these scholarships can probably find a good job in china plus it’s free as long as you do your best studying. You are not throwing your nationality.
So basically every one that immigrate to any western country’s is throwing away their nationality.
@@light6713 I think what they meant is giving away their identity. As in the Nepalese student having to act as the Chinese student in University and then the degree would be given to the Chinese student.
@@freeeggs3811 Their children will be another nationality as well.
@@walter3934 at the end of the day you are a foreigner. I think people should be grateful for getting these scholarships, it will open more doors for them back in their home country or in other countries. No one is forcing people into this it’s a choice
Here in Brazil, this also happens, I believe in all countries. The ruling classes do not want to lose power, this is not exclusive to China.
Here is recommended resolution: 1) the person who stole her identity giving back to her all the salary she made at her prominent job. 2) Giving the girl whose identity got stolen the job that the other girl had for last 16 yrs.
That doesn't solve shit.
I wonder if the person who stole her identity even got fired? Probably not.
Did you, or any of the people who liked watch the full video? 3:28. Employment got terminated. So quick to comment and judge.
@@antinapay ouch lose lose
I'm so lucky that I was not born in China
You’ve lost 90 social credits 😡👎🏼
@@sussybakagaming2613 I don't care eh eh eh
That is the way the chinese hierarchy rolls. Corrupt and disgusting practices.
To hell with the common people..
Dwight: "Identity theft is not a joke jim, millions of families suffer every year"
This takes "this is fucked up" to a whole new level.
You would think that farmers in China would get MORE respect since their population is so large they have to import food from America.
I thought being expelled from the party was serious punishment that would drastically change someones life for the worse.
"Identity theft is not a joke Jim, millions of families suffer every year!"
When you have a totalitarian state system, greed and corruption is the game and in the process the lowest and most vulnerable are the losers.
Oh my god it's so heartbreaking. As i an asian.. i know well how difficult years it was. I finish school at 2pm. Then took additional class till 4 pm. Then went to private cram school till 11pm..
Mass production of robots has been going on for a decade now.
poor and not attractive is a nightmare combination, no chance at all.
if you're just poor, but got beautiful face, no matter how dumb you're, you still got a chance.
genuinely what does that have to do with ANYTHING in this video??
My girl friend is from a remote rural area in China and she managed to enter top Chinese universities and get a PhD for her effort. It's appalling to know that the examination system has been tainted in such way.
@@icephoenix3565 I didn't say that. Why are you so sensitive?
I am baffled how the Chinese are trained to be robots but yet can be so advanced technologically and the second biggest economy.
I thought they were going to bring up how accepted cheating is there because of how much getting the right position can impact an entire family's future.
I know how to solve this. The person who bought the person’s grade should also pay the original person that got to grade so that way there’s no more issues.
that's like paying someone to take your tests . also illegal and a huge problem in India
@@rocketmanfossel1174 but at least both sides are satisfied where in this scenario one doesn’t get payment.
This is horrible! Imagine if this happened here in the US with SAT or ACT scores, or even for exams needed for master programs like the LSAT MCAT GRE etc.!
You're joking right? College admissions scandal?
Yeah. Imagine......😄
I mean it already happens
Hopefully these victims can find their way to Australia 🦘🇦🇺 they will be most valued.
Amen.
Yean and experience a difference kind of racism, trust me I met people who experience a lot more suffering there
@@emilyleong6442 yes I know, I've been to Indonesia 34 times already, sometimes for 6 months. And now it's worse because of covid. And I'm stuck in Australia and can't do anything to help, except to pray. If any are ill or have problems and believe that Jesus can help, let me know here. I'm not working so I have time to pray.
@@emilyleong6442 usually from other ethnicities
Emily Liang CCP troll
Imagine losing your entire childhood and teenage years on just studying for university, just for the Government to swoop in at the end and swap your grades with some privileged goverment kid.
are not communism about economic ideology that advocates for a classless society in which all property and wealth are communally-owned, instead of by individuals,
need money ???
or connection ???
isn't it harder to get past the vicious circle
"Competition is our ruination" W. E. Deming
As long as human beings continue to compete for resources instead of inventing new ones, we will always be fucked.
Communism is as classless as North Korea lives off tourism.
China is not communist. They are authoritarian capitalist.
Aka they embrace the free market, but the government has immense control over what businesses can and cannot do. Nepotism and cheating are more so products of Chinese culture which has been around for thousands of years, so not something so easy to change.
@@colinstone5479 so CCP is not Chinese Communist Party but
Chinese Capitalist Party
@@m.fajarkurniawan643 I guess you can put it that way yeah. As with everything else there's a lot of nuance and history, and I'm certainly no expert on the topic. Just that authoritarian/democratic are separate from socialist/capitalist, the first is how the government is run and the second is how the economy is run.
Im shook, but this is the reality.
"When you cannot solve the problem, solve the person who asked the question." This is oppression. Outrageous. I don't see how those who replaced these people will live any better, having such a guilty conscience for the rest of their lives. You can fool the world but you cannot fool yourself.
This video has been on my mind for weeks. Life is so unfair and she was not served the justice she deserved. How could they take so much from her with nothing in return. I’m disgusted and hurt for her. A world who tramples on the already undeserving poor.
So much for socialist marxist country always end up borjouis - proletar pain sometime worse than capitalist country
Sometimes? Lol always... communism has never worked, it will never work, it is of the devil. At least with Capitalism people stand a chance... just too bad we don't have capitalism anywhere in the world today... only CRONIE capitalism.
Oh well, this is the devils playground and he can KEEP IT. I'm outta here.
@@EQOAnostalgia Every system when applied to reality becomes worse than its ideal form. The thing is that some become even worse and should be forgotten: comunism/socialism, fascism, Aristocracy...
The country that promotes itself to being so high in morals doesn’t actually care about legitimacy or integrity.
Edit: I’m saying as a Canadian Chinese
The solution is easy. Just update the picture and show your ID and claim the degree for your self. The degree is in your name.
is there nothing out of corruption's reach in China?
I can heavily relate to Chen, in terms of devoting oneself to one's study to elevate your family's financial status.
This pisses me off to no end.
There is nothing out of corruption's reach period. Not just in China.
Their voice need to be heard & not attack by CCP trolls!
My observation - regardless of Nation , human nature is same , strangely this happen allover different government system weather USA , china or any other nations the sad reality is people who is at disadvantage Don't even know they were marginalized and even after years they do realize they are helpless :(
But in capitalistic countries, this is at least attenuated a bit by the minimum freedom each individuals are allowed to have. Peasant farmers can form independent trading companies or survive off their own produces, or maybe even make it big if they're lucky. In communistic countries like China the governing party will record and demand the resource in the name of socialism.
@@straypaper plz don't divert the topic to clash of ideology . What's I am referring above is a just my own thought/observation that human habit as an population doesn't changes . Like in above video it's about college entrance exam fraud in china and same is happend in USA as SAT scandal which you might to aware of , likewise in every political system or Nation there is fraud .
I read webnovel about 50-80's china, to think that this kind of things are still common nowadays is so chilling
Could you imagine if these people were free and could attend nearly any college/high school in the USA (or other free system)? They would be unstoppable.
Esp in terms of their determination.
Loved my education in Italy, no pressure. I admit uni was hard but there were no admission exams. I graduated with 2 years delay because I took my time enjoying life and always worked in fortune 500 companies. European life, no wonder why young Asian are desperate to leave their countries
I can attest for the existence of similar cases, having personally known other stories. Like the video says, it takes years of sacrifice and hard work to get good grades from these entrance exams. Once you get admitted to post-secondary institutions, the colleges and universities there have pretty laid back curriculum and it would be easy to graduate and earn a degree. People whisper about such things at dinner tables. The girl I am aware of was top of her school. When it happened, her family can just shake heads and swallow it. Her family is not even poor but middle class... Ironically the communist revolution started as revolt against bureaucracy and support of the working class, especially farmers.
my mother was the number one student in her school in China. Her ability to get out and go to a great university is what allowed her to come to America where I live an incredible life, compared to what my parents grew up in, filled with privileges. I am brought to tears thinking about how that could have been stolen from her in one moment of corruption, and how that could have F-ed over her entire family, the generation above and below her. it's heartbreaking.
This happens everywhere, even here in the US. And it probably will continue to happen. The ones that got caught are the ones that are punished.
It’s not about communism, capitalism, democracy or whatever. It’s about morality. Only people with good morals can build a better society.
To destroy is easy. To build is difficult.--Kung-Fu 101
How different is this form UCLA admission scandal
An individual paid lots of money for someone to get into ucla, with china is a whole system of favoritism controlled by the only political party members
@@MrChaddb You can also argue that everything in the US political and economic system also favors modern day aristocrats so what's the difference there?
Can you imagine this ? I feel so bad for these people. I’m going for my bachelors in computer science right now and I couldn’t imagine all that effort going towards someone else’s benefit especially when I come from a not so lucky family here In the US.
Jeez, in America you can just save up and start a business venture or real estate. If our country was an employee focused economy we would be a dust bin
Thanks for telling the world what a life Chinese people are going through under CCP ruling.
I hope someday that China will be free of communism and slavery, I’d love a world where the largest of all countries was a fair and prosperous one.😞
Keep dreaming. They have some good honest people. But the systemic corruption has deep roots and is irredeemable.
Slavery? The fuck?
@@Kamiifusen I believe they may be referring to the Ugyhur concentration camps in Xinjiang, or perhaps even the spate of young women(often North Korean refugees) that are often sold into slavery in China (*officially *this is illegal but Guangxi)
@@midori397 Communism is definitely not a good thing, it’s a fantasy concept that has the facade of being an “economic system” and also is insanely prone to be abused by populist marketing in the service of demagogues.
It is inviable in real life due to relying on a bunch of flimsy axioms for its very core function, on top of that it promotes the centralization of power which further cements it as the best marketing ploy for hungry narcissists to create a fake movement and consolidate themselves as autocrats. Believing lies is very dangerous because it prompts people to take ill action based on bad information, so I do implore you to actually stress test your assumptions on communism’s efficacy.
@@midori397 you are definitely right on the fact that there is no communism in China, it is controlled by a mafia organization called The communist party, and there is no such thing as “true communism” because it cannot exist, it’s simply way too flimsy and badly designed. But it is a very great form of marketing due to the ideals it promotes and promises.
As someone who have parents that are famers who worked so hard to give me the chance they did not have, this makes me so sad.
The unfairness.
The amount of work that father probably went through having the soothing tought that he works to make her daughter live a better life to only have it stolen by some lazy students. Plus the amount of work the daughter probably went through. She had to work at least twice as hard as the other students.
Monsters.
That’s really sad. Imagine if she was the one able to attend college with her OWN achievements. She could have had a better future
Some people are just brilliant, doesnt matter how much money you have. Some people barely needs to study, they read it once and they "Got It". I am not one of them. These folks are relatively rare, and being human, they need encouragement. :)
Similar things happen in every country, bribes are illegal for colleges to except but it happens all the time.
There was a few wealthy people that got caught in the United States 2019-2020 that had been paying off schools so there kids could take the place of people that actually qualified school. I don't know about stolen identity as that is a new subject depending on situation.
Yeah but in American universities , students just drink and act with no morals and learn nothing.
@@jonkiyosaki6600 I think your getting movies and reality mixed up
This is such a painful story. To have your hard work and your opportunity as a young person stolen from you !
cant you imagine this corrupt system being used to rural poor people. repeteadly. God will never let you high society get over this . you will never knew what is coming
Imagine the girl that replaces her go through 4 years of college with all the assignments and test now had her certificate voided sure a dumb idea. His dad can just send her to expensive oversea school if her score is not good.
for chinese everything is like DO or DIE, thats the reason they r best at everything whether in olympic or in education as they want to live peacefully.
Please, stop generalizing. My parents are Chinese, not everything is a “do or die” scenario. 🤦♀️😂 Their life in China was pretty normal, and my relatives who currently live in China are fine. I think you’re exaggerating it a bit.
Seems like Chinese took notes on how to conduct exams from Indian entrance tests like NEET and JEE 😂😂as an indian I can relate to alla Asian students pain 🥺❤️
Yo national-level entrance exam sounds whack af. Glad we don't do that here in the South East.
pakistani agent.
@@CyPsyGuy wait what..what has it got anything to do with pakistan..duh
This is one time when I wish those unrealistic novels about reincarnation and revenge truly happens. The govt is not doing anything and the hardworking citizens are suffering. This is truly heartbreaking, especially because college entrance exams of China is very very very competitive and students work their ass of for it. I can’t believe how shameless some people are. Taking benefit of others hard work so easily. Fking disgusting.
It sounds like test results and school acceptance letters need to be mailed with tracking numbers and be signed for...
Nah, that's too difficult.
Is common sense common?
India and China have a rough relationship but their social structure are somewhat similar. Similar stuff like these happens in India too . For example big coaching institutions pay toppers and buy their ranks to get more money from people . Corruption happens every where and there is no stop to it .
I can't even put to words how heart breaking this is. How many young hopefuls that would have given themselves and their families a better living situations have been robbed of this opportunity. These families have nothing to their names and their only hope is to give their children the education to be able to live a better life for their futures.
My country isn't "rich" by economic standards, but at least here, everyone has the equal opportunity to be educated and the young can enjoy their youth without killing themselves just so they could pass extensive examinations that can be taken away from them with a snap of a finger.
I cry and sympathize for the people of China and to the young ones. I hope in the future this oppression would end.