Grade school gets inventive with special tech program

Since 2007, students of Jiachengli Primary School in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, have won more than 100 utility model patents, more than 30 of which were newly added this year.

Around 80 percent of the students in the school are children of the "new Wuxi citizens", a local term referring to those who migrated to the city to work in recent years. And 75 percent of the patents have been granted to those students.

Although those children "from outside" might lag behind local children in terms of family education, they have very good hands-on skills, the school's headmaster, Ji Qiuping, told local newspaper Jiangnan Evening News.