When Zhang Xiaodai was an A-grade student at a junior high school in Chengdu, in the southwestern province of Sichuan, she found her studies dull. She wondered why her PE teacher was often sick but her math teacher was not, which meant almost every PE class was replaced by math.
Chinese schools are inclined to focus more on student discipline and obedience than individual autonomy, but a village school in eastern China is attempting to break the mold.
Huaqiao, in Gansu province's mountainous Kangxian county, used to be a poverty-stricken village, with 126 of its 215 households living below the poverty line.
Li Zongyin, the 57-year-old Party chief of Guhe village in Anhui province, prepared cured pork and steamed buns, asking his wife, "Do you want anything else?"
For the past 20 days or so, I have been staying in Guhe, a poverty-stricken village in northwestern Anhui province.
As a result of China's urbanization process, people have rushed into first-tier cities, causing commuting times to soar in the country's main urban areas.
Yanjiao in Hebei province, 30 kilometers east of Beijing, is home to more than 700,000 people, most of whom work in the capital.
After graduating from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2008, the native of Yinchuan, in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, left college and moved into an apartment his parents bought near the West Fourth Ring Road.
Luo Rensheng recently relocated from Changping district in northwest Beijing to Mentougou, 30 km west of the downtown. The move has cut his daily commute from six hours to two.
"A person can gradually get used to the physical tiredness when it becomes routine, but mentally, you always feel you are lacking something," said Hu Ranran, a 30-year-old mother.
Tang Lisha, a 21-year-old student at Chengdu Normal University in Sichuan province who comes from a poor family in Chongqing, is helping three students at her alma mater complete their middle school studies.
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