张雪峰，风雪未来 Fengxue Weilai 的创办人，在中国的大学入学规划市场成为现象级人物，并于41岁时因突发心脏死亡去世。他主张，出身贫困家庭的孩子应先解决实际问题，而公务员考试和公部门招聘是最可靠的路径。他说：「如果一个孩子坚持主修新闻，我一定把他打醒。」他曾就读于郑州大学的排水工程专业，家庭背景也被描述为贫困：父亲是铁路工人，母亲在失业后曾在街头卖货。

张雪出生于1987年，湖南怀化一个偏远村庄。父母在他3岁时离婚，父亲在他10岁时去世，母亲再婚后，他与姐姐和祖母一起生活。因为交不起学费，他辍学并成为一家摩托车修理店的学徒，每天工作超过10小时。后来他制造摩托车，媒体报导称他公司在2025年的产值达到750万元。 他赢得了 World Superbike Championship 的冠军，报导称这是中国摩托车制造商的首个冠军。他在31岁时第一次拿到每月10,000元的薪水。

文章称，中国顶尖大学的录取率约为2%，而第一梯队大学的录取率不到20%。它还说，一个来自农村贫困家庭的孩子，20年后成了厨师，并最终成为当地非物质文化遗产传承人。文章将以考试为中心的路径与能力、时间、市场需求、比较优势和能力圈进行对比，并指出在 AI 时代，确定性是最大的奢侈。文章还称，张雪峰毕业于一所211大学，并告诉人们，如果他的女儿学习不好，她仍然可以拿到学士学位，因为「家里有超过100 million的存款，去银行。」

Zhang Xuefeng, founder of Fengxue Weilai, became a phenomenon in China’s college-entrance planning market and died of sudden cardiac death at age 41. He argued that children from poor families should first solve practical problems and that civil service exams and public-sector hiring were the most reliable route. He said, “If a child insists on majoring in journalism, I will definitely knock him out.” He once studied at Zhengzhou University in a drainage engineering major, and his family background was described as poor: his father was a railway worker and his mother, after losing her job, sold goods on the street.

Zhang Xue was born in 1987 in a remote village in Huaihua, Hunan. His parents divorced when he was 3, his father died when he was 10, and after his mother remarried he lived with his sister and grandmother. Because he could not pay tuition, he dropped out and became an apprentice in a motorcycle repair shop, working more than 10 hours a day. He later built motorcycles, and media reports said his company’s output value reached 750 million yuan in 2025. He won the championship in the World Superbike Championship, and reports said this was the first championship for a Chinese motorcycle manufacturer. He first received a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan at age 31.

The article says China’s top-university admission rate is about 2% and the rate for first-tier universities is less than 20%. It also says that a child from a rural, poor family later became a chef and eventually a local inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, after 20 years. The article contrasts exam-centered paths with ability, time, market demand, comparative advantage, and capability circles, and says that in an AI era certainty is the biggest luxury. It also states that Zhang Xuefeng graduated from a 211 university and told people that if his daughter does not study well, she can still get a bachelor’s degree because “the family has over 100 million in savings, go to the bank.”