first day at a newly-built rural school in Yixian..

A group of Chinese village children on the first day at a newly-built rural school in Yixian, northeast China's Liaoning province 06 November 2007. China has capped school and college fees for the next five years, in a move apparently aimed at addressing a source of rising social tension, as fees have been frozen at 2006 levels and the government would use central budget funds to compensate schools and colleges for any inflationary pressures they faced.