An energetic 60-year-old man from eastern China with an appetite for confounding age stereotypes has gone viral after becoming a university student and taking part in military training.

Having taken China’s national college entrance exam, or gaokao , twice, he finally achieved his dream, living by his motto – “Learn for as long as I live.”

Former human resources worker, Wang Wensheng, from Hefei, Anhui province, was admitted to a local vocational college in August.

He is now studying online marketing and live-streaming e-commerce.

Wang recalled taking the gaokao decades ago but failing.