Internet brings English classes to rural schools in Guangxi

At the beginning of this month, third-graders at Minzu Shiyan Primary School had their first English class. But their teacher, Lai Lusi, was not standing in the classroom.

Teaching the class from another school 5 kilometers away, she was seen by her students on a screen thanks to an internet-based long-distance education system launched by the government of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The primary school, in Guangxi's Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, lacked an English teacher and so was unable to offer English classes.