An undergraduate from Shanghai Fudan University was one of four people from the Chinese mainland to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship this month.

Gong Chenzhuo, who graduated from the university's School of International Relations and Public Affairs last summer, will head to Oxford University in Britain for graduate studies with high hopes and a scholarship of 50,000 pounds ($71,000).

This is the first year the scholarship, regarded as the most prestigious in the world, has accepted candidates from the Chinese mainland.