Can Taiwan learn anything from China's approach to foreign language education? In 1989, Hong Kong's Wenweipo reported, "Two classes at [Shanghai's] Hainan Middle School completed the three-year middle-school English curriculum in only two years without taking any extra classes. The students scored an average of 91.3 on Shanghai's unified high-school entrance exam, beating the average score of third-year middle-school students in their district."
一九八九年「文匯報」報導，「（上海）海南中學兩個實驗班學生，在不加課的情況下，用兩年時間學完了初中三年的英語教材，採用上海初中升學統一試卷進行的嚴格測試中，平均分為九十一．三分，超過本區初三學生的平均分。」