Online learning may solve rural teacher shortage

Remote tuition overcomes distance and gives isolated children a taste of the outside world. Zou Shuo reports.

When Yang Xiaoli was younger, she would ask her mother what lay on the other side of the mountain that stood opposite their house. Her mother would always reply, "More mountains."

Recently, when asked about her dream life when she grows up, the 12-year-old from Ninglang county in the southwestern province of Yunnan replied without hesitation, "To travel the world."