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Amid the gloomy global outlook and much uncertainty in recent years, students in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) wanting to pursue further studies outside of the SAR have pinned down China’s mainland as their primary destination of choice.

The major reason for Wong Yat-lung, a 21-year-old from Hong Kong SAR, to go study on the mainland is traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

His grandpa is a TCM doctor in Hong Kong. The herbs his grandfather used to treat patients seemed to have “magic powers” in the eyes of Wong when he was a child, which led him to embark on a

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