School under fire for uniforms with firm's name

BEIJING - At least 50 young students were unwitting advertisers for a real estate company in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, after their good performance was rewarded with a new uniform bearing the firm's name.

The Baotou No 24 Middle School gave the students in the second and third grades a new red uniform. On the back were words saying they were good students and the name of the uniform's sponsor, Xiangrui Real Estate Co.

Only students with good performance or improvements in their studies were allowed to wear the red uniform on campus. The other students wore the usual blue, white and black uniforms.