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The city of Shanghai ranks first in the PISA ranking, an international program that compares the results of schoolchildren around the world. To understand the reasons for this success, the Envoyé Spécial teams have pushed open the doors of the schools of excellence installed in the economic capital of China. In classes equipped with the latest technology, students are subjected to an intensive pace and iron discipline. Teaching focuses almost exclusively on science and foreign languages. Leaders, teachers and students have only one idea in mind: to become the elite of their country and make it shine throughout the world. Public schools practice selection and ranking of students from the smallest classes. Private schools, on the other hand, offer a tailor-made and very expensive education: support courses, but also specialized programs for those who want to study abroad: Harvard, Yale, Polytechnique or MIT. Increasingly, these prestigious establishments are seeing an influx of students from Shanghai, whose level in science and mathematics far exceeds that of their Western peers. Directed and written by Renaud Mischi Broadcast on 10/15/2015