China’s first ever Olympics are on the near horizon. Xiuning county may be a thousand miles from Beijing, but that hasn’t stopped Olympic fever reaching its schools. It’s autumn and with the heat of summer and exams behind them, it’s time for the students to hit the sports field.
With 3,400 students, Haiyang Middle School is the largest school in the county. For the deputy head teacher, Sports Day is a mammoth undertaking. For school radio DJ Zha Yujie it’s the highlight of the year. She takes to the stage to support her friends as they tackle track and field events.
At Ping Min Primary School they’re holding their first Sports Day ever. Young champion Dai Deli is the fastest runner in school and is determined to take gold at his first ever Sports Day, but as always there are lessons to be learned all around.
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There are 350 million children enrolled in further education across China, but ‘Chinese Schools’ takes as its subject one small town in rural Anhui, and focuses on the lives of a group of families, teachers and children during the course of a single academic year.
They are schools like many thousands of others across this vast nation, but through the individual stories of hardship, joy and success, an extraordinary portrait emerges of a Nation, a town and a group of children in the midst of enormous change.
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