An energetic 60-year-old man from eastern China with an appetite for confounding age stereotypes has gone viral after becoming a university student and taking part in military training.
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Having taken China’s national college entrance exam, or gaokao, twice, he finally achieved his dream, living by his motto – “Learn for as long as I live.”
Former human resources worker, Wang Wensheng, from Hefei, Anhui province, was admitted to a local vocational college in August.
He is now studying online marketing and live-streaming e-commerce.

Wang recalled taking the gaokao decades ago but failing.
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