Our varied lives have proved our critics wrong

In 2012, Gao Song, my schoolmate at Renmin University of China, interviewed nearly 100 students, and promised to send the videos back 10 years later.

I was one of the people he filmed. He named the project The Stories of Yuanbaoers.

The interviewees mostly went to top universities in Beijing from across China. They were approaching graduation and facing choices for the next stage of life.