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Chinese students' print-like English handwriting stirs controversy

Chinese students' extremely neat handwritten compositions have prompted heated debate among Internet users since photos of the compositions and a teacher's picky remarks were published on Daily Mail Online.

The website reported on the compositions that looked like they had been machine printed and on the teacher's remarks at Hengshui High School in North China's Hebei province, one of China's top 100 high schools. The teacher wrote, "not one stroke more, not one stroke less" about some compositions that weren't neatly written.

The story immediately roused heated debate among British Internet users and got 652 comments after it was published on Wednesday.

Some British readers were amazed by the neat handwriting and attributed China's growing development to this strict teaching method.

Chinese students' print-like English handwriting stirs controversy