(The copy shows a sample essay with near-perfect handwriting. Web photo)
A few English essays written by high school students in China have amazed readers thousands of miles away in the UK. Looking at the near-perfect handwriting, many British are stunned.
All students at Hengshui Middle School in north China's Hebei province are taught to grasp the italics and try to write each English letter in a perfectly identical way. Their essays look as if they were printed.
(Comment from the teacher: Not one stroke more, not one stroke less. Web photo)
Hengshui Middle School, about 300km south of Beijing, is one of the best boarding schools in China, well known for military-style management and above-average performance of its students in college entrance examination.
(This one got A-. Teacher's reminder: be more careful with the writing of lower-case T. Web photo)
Neat handwriting is believed to be of considerable help in getting higher scores in college entrance examination. The Hengshui case is however exceptional, as most high schools in China simply encourage students to make their writing recognizable.
British newspaper Daily Mail picked up this hot topic on Chinese social media, and its article has got hundreds of comments from readers. Here are a few of the most popular ones:
