In the fall of 1989, a group of outstanding students from rural areas gave up the chance to attend high school and university after graduating from junior high. Hoping to escape their rural roots and leave behind the lives their parents had spent bent over the fields, they were influenced by policies that allowed them to switch from rural to non-rural status and receive state-provided food. They went straight on to secondary vocational schools instead. These fifteen- and sixteen-year-old children left home on their own while still young and inexperienced, carrying both anxiety and hope as they entered the bustling city. They leaned on one another, studying and growing together...
