Never Too Late to Learn
In 2019, Beijing announced a new policy, allowing people over 60 to ride public buses free. It was welcomed by Guo Huijuan, 62, who takes Bus 618 to Haidian Senior University for painting class twice a week.
“Distance is not a problem because I can enjoy the scenery along the route,” she told Beijing Review of her three-hour roundtrip bus ride. What inspires her is the happiness she feels attending university for the first time.
Growing up in a literary family, Guo wanted to learn to paint at a very young age. But her dream wasn’t realized until
