A student suffering from leukemia was recently admitted, as an exception, to college in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, according to college sources.

Liu Yu, graduating from Chongqing No. 29 High School, started to receive medical treatment two months ago after being confirmed to have leukemia.

Although technically barred from attending the collectively organized national matriculation examination, Liu decided to have a go in the tough test and moved local educators who arranged for her to take the test in the hospital individually under special surveillance.

The leukemia-suffering girl passed the examination to become qualified for enrolling in a three-year course in the Chongqing Normal University, which offered Liu a place in its foreign trade program and exempted the girl from taking a pre-enrollment medical check.

Newly admitted college students in China are usually required by universities to take a medical examination to prove they are physically fit for taking the college or university courses.

The university also agreed to keep the offer for Liu if she is physically unprepared to join the college program in fall.

(Xinhua News Agency July 10, 2005)