'Winter camp' no holiday

Ningning doesn't look forward to the coming month-long winter holiday. As the semester ended on Jan 23, the 10-year-old fourth grader at a local primary school knows her studies will continue - only under the name of a winter camp.

She knows the camp doesn't involve hanging out with friends or joining activities that interest her.

It is a four-day "Olympic mathematics" crash course organized by one of the biggest training centers for primary and middle school students in the city. Her study schedule also includes daily math and English classes that end three days before the Spring Festival.