Chinese students refuse to leave ‘best’ residence and allow foreigners to move in
College insists replacement building is adequate and explains the move, but students defend their old facilities as furious row with teacher is posted online
A college in eastern China has denied giving overseas students preferential treatment after its Chinese students staged a protest, claiming they had been forced to give up their rooms to foreigners and move to inferior accommodation.
The dispute erupted between education authorities and students of Wuxi Institute of Technology, a vocational school in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, over what the undergraduates said was an order to evict them from the best residence building to make way for overseas students, Thepaper.cn reported.
Teachers tried in vain to persuade them to move on Monday morning before returning on Tuesday afternoon to try again as tempers flared in a row witnessed by about 40 other students, Yangtse Evening Post reported.
A video posted on Weibo, China’s Twitter, on Tuesday shows a teacher urging students to move out of the building on Monday evening, and quarrelling with them as they refuse to leave.
“This is the school’s property,” yells the teacher in the video. “Who are you?”