A Chinese university has given its students an extra week of vacation so that young people can travel, enjoy spring and fall in love.
Students from the nine colleges of Mianyang Flying Vocational University will not have classes between April 1 and 7. Instead, they should “learn to love nature, love life and enjoy love,” urged the school’s principal, Liang Guohui, as quoted by the Chinese Communist Party’s youth league newspaper, China Youth Daily.
Since 2019, this university has been taking a break for spring break, but this year’s motto places special emphasis on romance: “enjoy the flowers, you will fall in love”.
However, there is homework to be done: students must write a journal that reports their personal growth these days and record videos of their trips, which will make up a back-to-school exhibition.
The Mianyang Flying University announcement went viral on the Chinese social network Weibo, with many users calling for more universities to do the same at a time when, for the first time in decades, the number of deaths exceeded the number of births in China. China.
Following the one-child policy that ran from 1980 to 2015, authorities expanded the limit to three children in 2021, but young couples were reluctant to expand families during the pandemic. Low wages, childcare costs and gender inequality are other reasons given for declining birth rates in the country.
Source: TSF
