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Want free Wi-Fi? Solve this math problem - Chinese University tells studentsSep 9 (AZINS) We know how everyone loves free Wi-Fi. In a world how everything moves on the internet, Wi-Fi is like an oxygen to many. So, this Chinese University made an intelligent move for the students to avail free Wi-Fi services in the campus.

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China's Jiangsu province wants students to solve a mathematics problem to avail the free Wi-Fi services, according to a Zee News report. 

The Chinese elite university has come up with an interesting move for the students where the students have to solve the complex math problem to have access to the Wi-Fi password. According to the reports, the math question is written next to the food menu in the university mess and before they can access the free services they have to solve the problem. The password of the Wi-Fi is the first eight digits of the answer.

'Wi-Fi password is the first eight digits of the math problem below,' the statement in Chinese said.

Smart, isn't it? Solving math problems sound more interesting now!

Earlier, since October last year, many universities across China have placed "Xi Thought" at the core of their curricula – the first time since the era of Mao Zedong that a Chinese leader has been accorded similar academic stature.

China's universities are on the frontlines of an effort to promote the thinking of President Xi Jinping to China and the world. Xi Thought, which is literally the collection of his public statements, is an all-encompassing guide for China's professed aims of becoming an economic and military power by 2050, under the strict control of the ruling Communist Party.

Mandatory ideology classes have been updated by the universities in response to the instruction from the leadership that Xi's ideas must enter the textbooks, classrooms and minds of students.

Since October, at least 30 Xi Thought research institutes have been established in universities, governments and ministries, while lecture courses for students, officials and ordinary people have been organised across the country.

Beijing's Xi Thought institute has a 2018 budget of 16 million yuan ($2.5 million), according to the Beijing Federation of Social Sciences. Researchers who apply for funding through the centre can get from 80,000 to 300,000 yuan for projects.

The most prestigious annual grants in China, the National Social Sciences Fund, in June announced that funding for 2018 was awarded to 90 research projects with Xi's name in the title, 240 projects on the "new era", a signature Xi slogan, and dozens more on other Xi Thought-related policy initiatives.