According to statistics, these students include students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan 184. If the freshmen of Peking University Health Science Center are added, the number of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan students coming to Peking University in the new semester will reach 220, a record high.
The person in charge of Peking University's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office said that the application for exemption of undergraduate courses began last year, and the number of students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who came to Peking University increased greatly after the postgraduate qualification examination began the year before last.
Prior to this, most students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who came to Peking University had to pass the joint entrance examination for overseas Chinese students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan organized by the Ministry of Education. From 20 10, the former 13% students can apply for Peking University with their local examination results. For example, Li Kan, the son of Li Ao who entered school last year, scored in the top 3% in Taiwan Province Province. At present, about half of the 600 degree students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Peking University are from Taiwan Province Province.
Although the number of students studying in Peking University has increased in the past two years, the school has not given them special treatment. Students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have to pay the same tuition fees, live in the same dormitory as other students, and have the same qualifications for scholarships, except that political theory classes can be exempted and replaced by China culture classes. The head of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office of Peking University said that most students have adapted to the life of Peking University after a period of debugging, including Li Kan, a "star" freshman last year, and now live an ordinary campus life like ordinary students in the School of Economics.
Faced with the situation that universities such as Hong Kong University come to the Mainland to grab students, universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua have also increased their enrollment in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Xie Jieying, a sophomore at Peking University University of International Relations in Hong Kong (Admissions Office), said that she personally felt that the number of lectures given by Peking University in Hong Kong had increased in the past two years, which made her know more about Peking University and come here to study. She said that when she came to Peking University to study, she learned to look at the world from the perspective of the country, which was completely different.