http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010jy3t
What does an education get you? Education is the only way out of poverty, as it
has been sold to the Chinese population since ancient times. China's economic
boom and talk of the merits of hard work have created an expectation that
studying is how to escape poverty. Yet it seems the system only leads to jobs
for a few, and debt for all. Weijun Chen's film, set in Wuhan in central China,
looks at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of private
college tutor Wang Zehziang, high school graduate and would-be university
student Wang Pan, and graduate jobseeker Wan Chao.
A BBC Storyville film, produced in partnership with the Open University,
China's Ant People screens as part of Why Poverty? - when the BBC, in
conjunction with more than 70 broadcasters around the world, hosts a debate
about contemporary poverty. The global cross-media event sees the same eight
films screened in 180 countries to explore why, in the 21st Century, a billion
people still live in poverty.