Some are left alone, like 81-year-old Zhang Meiling, who sits sadly in a tiny one room house in Beijing.
In front of the school on Wednesday, as students exercised in their blue-and-white track-suit uniforms, 18-year-old Zhang Tianyu said he wasn't deterred.
Thanks to increased income, his children were freed up to attend the university, said the 53-year-old Zhang, whose own education ended with high school.
Much has changed since late 1990 when 27-year-old Zhang opened his first appliance store at the intersection of Jiangsu and Ninghai Road in historic Nanjing.
Tuesday's final day of qualifying also sees 18-year-old Zhang, who has already won three qualifying matches, take on Ricky Walden, Jamie Cope face Mark Joyce and Stephen Lee, currently bailed following an investigation into suspicious betting patterns, playing Mike Dunn.
"I think we have a goal, " said 23-year-old Christina Zhang, an undergraduate in linguistics at Beijing Normal University.
Hendry, without a ranking title since the 2005 Malta Cup, begins against 18-year-old Chinese prodigy Zhang Anda and the seven-time champion admits he is uncertain what awaits him.
In an article on Tuesday in China Daily, reporter Chen Xin interviewed a 35 year old mechanic named Zhang Hongbo who reportedly returned to his hometown Nanchong in Sichuan province for Spring Festival and decided not to go back to his ten year job in Guangzhou, one of the three major Eastern cities.
"I don't know many drivers who would be concerned about creating more pollution, " said Zhang, a 26-year-old law student.
The 31-year-old woman, who was identified by her first name Zhang, fell ill on January 10.
Zhang Wen, a 56-year-old farmer in Yan Lu village, likes to hang out near the van when it arrives.
"I don't think anybody from this school could be smart enough to attack a big Internet company like Google, " said Zhang Jian, a 22-year-old auto-repair student dressed in a basketball jersey and flip flops.
Zhang Jiang, a slim 21-year-old, previously assembled laptop computers at another company in Shanghai.
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