Families camp out for 5 days to get children enrolled at kindergarten

Parents and grandparents camped outside a kindergarten in Beijing for five days and nights to ensure getting a place when registration opened on Saturday.

Liu Jipan's granddaughter is 2 years old and expects to start kindergarten in September 2016. To guarantee a place for her, the 64-year-old retired worker slept in a tent for five nights - even though his home is just a five-minute walk away.

Registration began at 9 am on Saturday, but Liu arrived at the kindergarten at 8 am five days earlier. Even so, there were already 80 people ahead of him in the line. The kindergarten was offering 100 places for the coming semester.