Retirees busy with English

They may have retired from professional life, but Beijing's senior citizens are proving that it is never too late to learn another language.

Elderly people made up the majority of students in the lecture hall of China Higher Education Press last Saturday for a free English class, which is organized to encourage more residents to take up the language.

Of the 200 or so who attended the first event of this year, more than two-thirds were retirees, with the rest mostly college students.