Mother sells roasted sweet potatoes, wears broken 5-yuan glasses. Encourages daughters to study hard, they achieve academic excellence. — SCMP
A street hawker in China who made many sacrifices to pay for the education of her two daughters has been richly rewarded after they both excelled academically.
Zhang Bingbing, who was recently accepted as a PhD candidate at Dalian University of Technology in Liaoning province, northeastern China, said she was the first student in her village to be accepted by a 985 university.
