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Yang Zhen will graduate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei province, in June.

Lately, the 22-year-old has been planning a trip with her roommates before graduation.

They are going to Chengdu in Sichuan province to see pandas.

"But the more important thing is the famous Sichuan food," she says.

Yang comes from a poor farmers' family in Jiangsu province. She does not have extra money to spend on travel.

So, she has been doing part-time jobs to make money for the last－and only－trip during her college years.

"A graduation trip is one of the must-dos for college students. It seems like our university life will be completed only after doing it," she says.

"It's part of the graduation ritual to officially say goodbye to our student time and prepare to enter another phase of life."