Chinanews, Beijing, Nov. 13 – In a recent survey, 85.5% of young people feel that nowadays, many reports about college students are negative reports.

 

The survey was jointly carried out by the China Youth Daily Social Investigation Center and the Information Center at Tencent website. About 7,450 college students participated in the survey.

 

“It seems that we are now the trouble makers,” an interviewee said.

 

Li Taotao is a senior student at Beijing Normal University.

 

“Many reports about college students are not true. Sometimes they just exaggerate things out of all proportions. The things reported by media might only reflect some individual college students. They do not cover the whole part. When these reports repeatedly appear in newspapers or TV, many people tend to think that college students as a whole are just too bad. Several times, after my parents read some of such news they came to me and said, ‘Have you done such things like them?’ , or ‘We are so worried that you might be dragged down,’ etc,” Li said.

 

Many interviewees said that nowadays, many college students work hard in their studies in order to find a good job in the job market. “Nowadays, there is intense competition among college students as many are working hard to pass the college graduates entrance examination or the examination of public servants. Faced with heavy pressure in the academic study and in job market, many college students have no time to live a vicious life. It is unfair for the media to give a biased report on them,” they said.

 

In the survey, 46.5% of the respondents said media wrote too many negative reports about college students in order to meet some readers' curiosity about students. 83.9% of the respondents thought media often gave inaccurate reports about today's college students.