The first student for getting the authentication certificate of the U.S. Microsoft Corporation Network Technical Engineer was Lin Hai.

Lin Hai, one student of 1997^th senior high school students, got this certificate in August 1998 and became the youngest network technical expert in the talent pool of the Microsoft Southern Region of China. This was reported in Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, Shenzhen Youth Daily, Shenzhen style, Guangdong Education and Hong Kong Apple Daily with the headlines like a Seventeen-year-old computer whiz kid.