Graduates become teachers, brighten lives of students in rural areas

ZHENGZHOU - Mosquitoes and bugs were the first things that greeted Yan Zixuan when she arrived at her classroom for the first time last year.

"The door opened with a squeak and mosquitoes and bugs swarmed out," Yan, 26, recalled. "I will never forget it."

Yan left her job in the city a year ago to teach at Dingzhai Elementary School in Fengqiu county in Henan province, as part of a rural teaching program.