大学入取通知书内竟然夹带广告

Students who recently received their admission letters from China's A-list Nankai University were also puzzled by getting a supplementary advertising VCD of a mobile communications company and a 10 yuan coupon card.

"I took it as a gift from the school at first, but later I realized it was an ad, after talking to newly recruited students," Hu Liang, from south-west China's Guizhou Province, told the China Youth Daily.

In July, letters of admission from Nankai University, Tianjin, were sent to more than 3,000 students across the country, many of whom were confused by the advertisement items.

"Is my university such a commercially motivated one?"

In response, Zhao Guimin, head of the university's recruitment office, apologized to the students while concurrently contacting the postal department to see what went wrong with the letters.

Reports say all the letters were consigned to Tianjin Post Office through EMS. It was made clear by the school that there was no commercial advertisements attached to the letters, says Zhao Guimin.

"Tianjin Post is a government-owned enterprise, that's why we've had many years of co-operation with them. But obviously they have failed us this time." Zhao was quoted as saying.

Through the postal service, commercial advertisements can be sent to anybody in any form, and at a much lower cost than TV or newspaper media, Tianjin Post Office says on its website.

近日，收到中国一流大学南开大学入取通知书的学生感到迷惑不解，因为他们同时也收到了一份夹带其中的广告，其中有一张关于一家移动公司的VCD和十元优惠券， “刚开始我以为是学校送的礼物，后来疑问其他新生才知道是广告。”来自中国西南部贵州省的胡亮对《中国青年报》说。七月份，全国各地三千多名学生收到了天津南开大学的入取通知书，许多人对其中的广告疑惑。 “我的大学就这么商业化？” 南开招生办主任赵贵民向学生道歉，同时目前正在和邮政部门联系，调查信件中的广告到底是怎么回事。 “天津邮政是国有企业，所以多年来我们一直同他们合作。但是显然这次令我们失望了。”赵如是说。天津邮政的网站上说，通过邮政，商业广告可以以任何形式送达任何地方，而费用则比电视或其他报纸媒介低得多。