Trip-of-a-lifetime for 30 rural kids

A week in Beijing will hopefully lead to better opportunities for a group of underprivileged students

Yang Minbao, a 12-year-old from Yunnan province, has just taken his first flight in an airplane - a trip to Beijing. It was also his first time in the Chinese capital.

From the Miao ethnic group, Yang lives in a remote and mountainous area of the province's Tengchong county and was one of 30 students from poor communities in Southwest China who were selected to take part in the Aramco Asia Youth Program last month.