Where will you plan to travel this summer holiday? You may plan to visit Tsinghua and Peking universities. And you won't be alone. Every summer, lots of tourists travel to these two top Chinese universities.
Tsinghua university opens to the public(公众)at 8∶30, however, many visitors start to line up(排队)at 3-4 a. m. , because people who come at 6 a. m. will be too late and can only enter in the afternoon. In fact, it's not only Chinese universities that are overcrowded(过度拥挤的)in summer. Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom also meet the same problem. Cambridge is usually filled with tourists, including Chinese schoolchildren in uniforms. Universities in America are also popular among Chinese tourists. Nine out of ten Chinese visitors to America want to visit a university.
So why do Chinese tourists have such a big love for famous universities? One reason is that many parents hope to get their children to go to a top university in the future. Wang Yan, 15, who comes from Changsha, visited two famous American universities in 2018. "American universities are different from Chinese ones. There are no walls. " He told The New York Times.