o Wang Yi (Chinese vice foreign minister, Chinese ambassador to Japan) began to study Japanese at Beijing International Studies University after taking the entrance examination in 1977.

o Bo Xilai (minister of commerce) entered Beijing University in 1978. Before that he worked in a machine factory in Beijing.

o The three top leaders of domestic television manufacturers: Chen Weirong (Konka group president), Li Dongsheng (TCL corporation president and CEO) and Huang Hongsheng (board chairman of the Skyworth Group) were classmates, all admitted to South China University of Technology in 1978.

o Chinese movie director Zhang Yimou started to study photography at the Beijing Film Academy in 1978. His colleague Chen Kaige took the major in directing there in the same year.

o Chinese musician Tan Dun was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music and started to study composition in 1978.

o Wang Xiaobo, the deceased Chinese writer, took the entrance examination at the age of 26 in 1978 and then entered Renmin University of China.

(Star News)