Pioneering initiative

A small town in South China's Guangdong province has shown the way in education reform.

Shipai in Dongguan will provide education free of cost starting September to children right from the kindergarten level through college. This facility will be available to all of its 42,000 citizens holding residence permits.

The pioneering initiative may well stretch for some 25 years in the educational lifespan of a child, since the support promises to extend right up to the doctoral level.