New students arrive at Zhejiang University on Aug 16, accompanied by their parents. About 10 percent of the more-than 6,000 freshmen at the school have received financial aid from the State.PAN HAISONG/FOR CHINA DAILY Authorities honor vow that poverty will not force people to drop out of school. Zou Shuo reports from Lanzhou. Born into a "dirt poor" family in a small village in mountainous Beichuan Qiang autonomous county, Sichuan province, Duan Zhixiu never imagined she would have the opportun...