Freshmen enter campus with contrasting lifestyles
As freshmen began a new life on university campuses this week, those from well-off families have been on shopping sprees while others with humbler financial resources were scrambling to pool enough money to fund fees and living expenses.
A man surnamed Wen flew from Chengdu in Sichuan Province to Beijing with his wife last week to help their 18-year-old son settle down in Tsinghua University. Since it was the first time the teenager was leaving home, Wen and his wife plan to spend two weeks in the capital to make sure everything is all right.
Besides the cost of air tickets and hotel accommodation, Wen spent more than 30,000 yuan to buy his son a laptop computer, an MP3 player, an E-dictionary, a digital camera and a mobile phone.
"The trip and shopping cost a lot of money but I think it is necessary to help my son enjoy his campus life," Wen said.
According to the bulletin boards of many universities, a freshman's necessities cost less than 1,500 yuan.
Hong Chengwen, a professor at the education and management department of Beijing Normal University, suggested that parents give children more space to grow up and let them handle their own affairs.
"College students should learn how to manage their budget," Hong said. "A healthy consumption habit will benefit a person for life; and there is no need to buy too many unnecessary, expensive things at one time."
For Li Yanjun, a freshman from a village in Suzhou of North China's Shanxi Province, the cost of luxury goods sounds astronomical.
"I brought only about 1,000 yuan, most of that borrowed from relatives and fellow villagers," Li said. "My family just about manages to make ends meet as our only income is from crops."
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