Students spend most of summer indoors

GUANGZHOU - Cheng Dongwei looked disappointed when his mother once again told him on QQ chat: "No, you can't go out until I get home this evening."

A minute before, the 11-year-old boy had used the instant-messaging service to ask: "Can I go to the cinema with my classmates, mom? I've finished my homework for the day."

"My mother never lets me go out, and I get bored at home," said Cheng, a 5th grade student in a primary school in Guangzhou's Tianhe district, on Tuesday.