Students flock back to classes

Source: Xinhua  |   2008-6-24  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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-- Adverstisement --

MORE than 70,000 primary and middle school students resumed classes in temporary schools yesterday in Dujiangyan City, six weeks after the devastating Sichuan earthquake.

The five-star national flag was hoisted at the Wanchuan Middle School as 7,000 students and teachers returned to the routine of a school day.

"The temporary school was built within 17 days to allow classes to resume for the students and teachers from six schools, which were toppled in the massive earthquake," said Liu Junlin, Communist Party chief of Dujiangyan.

Liu said that Wanchuan is the biggest of the 45 temporary schools built after the earthquake, which together could accommodate all the students of the 92 schools in Dujiangyan before the earthquake. The city was among the worst hit areas in the disaster.

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