Over the same period, the number of annually reported cases has almost doubled, he said, citing a real-time epidemic surveillance system. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is hitting young Chinese students, particularly males, hard with annually reported cases surging more than four times in the past seven years, said the nation's top AIDS specialist.Ĭhina has reported more than 3,400 student cases of HIV/AIDS this year, compared with 779 in 2008, said Wu Zunyou, head of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention.