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A vocational student’s against-the-odds placement in a math competition draws attention to lesser-known educational institutions.

Jiang Ping, a 17-year-old Chinese girl from Jiangsu Lianshui School, ranked 12th in the 2024 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition, becoming the first secondary vocational school (zhongzhuan) student to enter the finals since the competition was launched in 2018.

In theory, zhongzhuan aim to provide alternative educational paths in the model of vocational schools in countries such as Germany. In practice, they are underfunded, severely lacking in trained teachers, and often stigmatized.

That stigma makes Jiang’s success at the math competition remarkable.

生词短语:

against-the-odds

克服困难的

placement

名次，排名

lesser-known

鲜为人知的

vocational school

职业学校

underfunded

资金不足的

stigmatized

被污名化的

stigma

污名

remarkable

非凡的，显著的