Yes, as a category. Students are named explicitly in national policy, and where the concession applies the standard rate is half the adult ticket. Whether your student card claims it is a separate question, and the honest answer is that it depends on wording you can check before you go.
Students are a named category nationally#
The National Development and Reform Commission's notice on state-owned scenic area ticket pricing — 发改办价格 (fā gǎi bàn jiàgé, NDRC Office price notice) 〔2020〕568号, of 27 July 2020 — requires sites on government pricing to provide fare reductions and preferential treatment to a listed set of groups:
对现役军人、残疾军人、烈属、因公牺牲军人遗属、病故军人遗属、现役军人家属，以及未成年人、老年人、学生、残疾人、宗教人士等，应按规定切实提供门票减免等优待。
Serving military personnel, disabled veterans, martyrs' families and the bereaved families of service members, together with minors, older people, students, disabled people and religious personnel, are to be given ticket reductions and concessions as provided.
So the concession is not a favour each site invents. It sits in the same national framework as the senior concession, and it is why concession boards at Chinese gates list several categories rather than one.
The rate, and the wording that decides it#
The national notice sets the obligation; provinces write the detail. Fujian is a documented example of the common pattern — the same province the senior answer uses, for the same reason, that its rules are published plainly. Its measures for scenic area ticket pricing grant half price:
对6周岁～18周岁（含18周岁）未成年人、全日制大学本科及以下学历在校学生、60周岁（含60周岁）至69周岁的老年人…凭有效证件实行半票。
Minors from 6 to 18 inclusive, full-time students studying at bachelor's level or below, and people aged 60 to 69, on presentation of valid identification, pay half fare.
Two things matter in that sentence.
The rate is half, not free. Free entry in these schemes tends to sit with the youngest children, the over-65s and the military categories; students get the half-price band.
It says 凭有效证件 (píng yǒuxiào zhèngjiàn, "on presentation of valid identification") — not 凭学生证 (píng xuéshēngzhèng, "on presentation of a student card"), which would name the Chinese student booklet specifically. That distinction is exactly the one that decides whether a foreign visitor can claim the senior concession, and it works the same way here.
What that means in practice#
Be realistic about it. A student concession is easier to write into a rule than to claim at a window, because the thing being verified is enrolment rather than a fact printed in your passport — age, which the passport proves, is why the senior concession travels better.
- Carry your university card, with the current academic year visible on it. An international student card is worth having for the same reason, though nothing in the rules we have seen names one.
- Expect the concession where you are enrolled in China. Foreign students at Chinese institutions hold the standard 学生证 (xuéshēngzhèng, student card) and are in the ordinary case of the rule rather than the awkward one.
- Ask, but budget the full fare. The advice here matches the senior page: present the card, and plan the trip as though it will not be accepted.
- The gate ticket is not the whole cost. Shuttle buses and cable cars inside a Chinese site are priced and concessioned separately, and are often the larger number.
- A concession does not replace a booking. Where a site requires advance reservation against a passport number, that step still applies.
Only one province's wording is quoted above, deliberately. Provinces differ, and a rule written around a Chinese student card will be administered around one — so check the province you are visiting rather than assuming Fujian's phrasing travels.