The prestigious Nanjing University in Jiangsu province has launched an investigation after a student showed off online how she spent her hardship scholarship on luxury items.

The unnamed student, a member of the university’s business school, spent 40,000 yuan (US$6,120) on clothes alone during a three-month internship in Shanghai, according to Chengdu-based Red Star News.

She was known to write frequently about her luxury shopping on social media site Weibo, and had a company with a registered capital of 2 million yuan under her name, the report said.

She was also said to have attended self-funded programs organized by the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Another student of Nanjing University told Red Star News that the woman applied for the hardship fund in the first year of her university studies after one of her family members fell ill.

Her father was a civil servant and her mother did not have a stable job, the schoolmate said. She received an iPhone X, valued at around 10,000 yuan, from her father after finishing her A-Level exams, according to the report.

A university official told Red Star News that it was investigating the student’s family finances and social media posts.

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