In just less than three minutes, an elevator transported nine students from the valley floor of Nizhu River Grand Canyon to a cableway platform 268 meters above. After stepping out, the students boarded a cable car and reached their mountaintop school – the Guanzhai village primary school – within five to six minutes. What was once a perilous three- to …

Working as a primary school teacher in Taishitun Township in Beijing, Diao Rongchun has remained deeply committed to education in mountainous areas. Adhering to the concept of “tolerance, gentleness, cultivation and education,” Diao employs a teaching method based on interaction, mutual appreciation and mutual promotion, paying close attention to the growth of every student. To that end, she has traveled …

hen Yuxuan, a high school graduate from east China’s Zhejiang Province, recently made headlines by choosing to attend a vocational university rather than a general university, despite scoring 602 points, 110 points above the provincial university admission threshold. Chen’s unconventional decision to choose vocational education, which has long been stereotyped or even stigmatized in China, has sparked widespread debate on …