FOR a great number of college students returning to campus following the six-week summer vacation,a personal computer is an indispensable part of their luggage.More than 1,000 computers have been consigned daily at a railway station in Nanjing, capital city of East China’s Jiangsu Province, since students began returning to Nanjing-based colleges and universities in late August.Many students have carried their computers with them during the train journey to avoid damage, said a source with the station.While some students have brought new PCs to school, others are returning to school with computers which they had taken home for the vacation.“It was not easy carrying the two heavy cartons all the way to Nanjing, but it was worthwhile” said one student who gave his name as Hu. A computer is very useful in campus life, both for schoolwork and entertainment,” he said.Another student, Xu, from South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has returned from a trip home with his computer by his side.Xu said that, from the time he had saved enough money to assemble a computer in Nanjing, he had dreamed of taking his computer home to show his parents and teach his teenage sister some basics. “We live in a remote mountainous area where no one had ever seen a computer,” he said.

　　“Besides, I was the only one in my village to enter college in years.”Throughout the summer, Xu’s house was crowded with villagers eager to see what a computer was like and how it worked. “Some even came from the other side of the mountain to see the novelty,” he said.(Xinhua)