Floating classes carry Party messages to fishing villages

NANNING - At least once a month they gather on decks or in the red-roofed house in the center of the water, sitting on stools to hear or study the latest theories and policies of the Communist Party of China.

For the 6,000 residents of Tianshengqiao township of Longlin county in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the "lecture on the water" is the most popular and effective channel to understand Party policies. Speakers are mainly village and township Party chiefs. County technology advisers are also invited to teach aquaculture.

Liu Jian, Party chief of Tianshengqiao, has been a frequent speaker since he took office in this small, remote mountain town in October 2016. He says most of the population belongs to ethnic minorities, including Zhuang, Miao and Gelao.