BEIJING - Think Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member and someone like PhD student Zhou Yeqiu might not be the first person to come to mind.
The bespectacled 26-year-old student at the University of Science and Technology Beijing is shy and self-deprecating, repeatedly apologising for her lack of public speaking skills.
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