Remote lessons could cut travel

Distance learning may be cheaper alternative to large bus purchases

BEIJING - China should do more to develop distance education as part of the effort to reduce school bus accidents, a senior official said over the weekend.

Some 460 billion yuan ($73 billion) is needed to equip all schools nationwide with standard school buses, Liu Yandong, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said at a meeting on education on Saturday.