Driving schools are popping up all over. Chinese girls are considered second-class citizens and they make up 70 percent of all school dropouts. Twenty million teens a year hope to enter university, but only 3 percent of these get the chance to go. Because of the large population, families are limited to one child. Continuing the family name is important in China, so sons are sometimes preferred over girls.
Some parents even abandon baby girls or continue trying for a boy.
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