Locals help minority students adapt to school life

YINCHUAN - Residents in a neighborhood in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region know that 65-year-old Zhao Shuzhen has three children, two biological daughters, and one Tibetan "daughter".

Zhao lives in the Gongxiang community in the city of Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia. The city is home to North Minzu University, where about 60 percent of its 20,000 students are from Chinese minority ethnic groups.

In 2015, Gongxiang, a neighborhood consisting of Hui, Han, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan ethnic groups, launched an aid program to help minority students living far from their hometowns better integrate into school life and local culture.