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Article: All students China's May 12 quake zone to return to school
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 31, 2008
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All students China's May 12 quake zone to return to school
CHENGDU, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- All the 3.4 million students in the
May 12 quake zone in southwest China's Sichuan Province will return
to school on Monday, a provincial education official told a news
briefing on Sunday.
About 33 percent of the students will resume classes in their
former schools unaffected in the earthquake. Thirty-eight percent
will attend classes in buildings that have been reinforced. Around
28.4 percent will study in prefabricated classrooms, according to
Tu Wentao, the provincial education department head.
Nearly 20,000 students in the worst-hit areas would have to leave
their home towns to seek schooling. ...