It was reported that in Gansu Province's Lanzhou City, a grandmother named Zhong in her seventies, without telling her family, went to the Chengguan District People's Hospital's plastic surgery center and underwent liposuction operation on her tummy, a procedure many much younger people dare not try. The grandmother said she heard the tummy was where a person stores the body's fat and that removing most of that fat would reduce one's blood pressure. She underwent the operation to enable her to complete her ongoing postgraduate studies as well as to do some more work.

Lying on a hospital bed while being infused, the young-looking grandma said she underwent her first liposuction in a hospital in Anning District in 1999 to reduce her high blood lipid. But the result of that operation was less than satisfactory and made one half of her tummy higher than the other half. As a result, the clothes she put on always inclined to one side. This time she came to the People's Hospital in Chengguan District for another plastic surgery and hope the results would improve her ability to do more work.

Grandma Zhong said she was accepted as a research fellow this May by Gansu province's party school. She is the oldest student in her class, the ages of her classmates range from 23 to 43. Grandma Zhong said she took on the postgraduate education not to prove anything. She just wanted to acquire knowledge in things she wished to learn.
 
(Chinanews.cn October 17, 2005)