Charitable school to make way for highway

A primary school in Guizhou province mainly funded by charitable donations is being used as a trash recycling station and will soon be demolished for the construction of a highway, which experts said revealed local authorities' poor management of charitable assets.

Chen Baoguo, secretary-general of the Guizhou Youth Development Foundation, said the organization dispatched an investigation team after Chinese media revealed on Thursday that a school named after its brand project was abandoned and filled with piles of trash in Laoshan village, Longchang township of Kaili county.

"We found out that the school's land was taken over for a highway project in January 2010 and all 11 students there were sent to study at the county primary school eight months later," he said.