Do city people eat artificial rice?

How can you find your home in a city where all houses look alike?

If a student acts naughty in class in the city, will the teacher see it from the computer?

How do you ride a plane? Do you sit on its wings or in its belly?

These are some of the 100 questions written by primary pupils from remote Chinese countryside in Yunnan province (e.g.,Yongren, Yuanyang, Xiangyun, Shangrila Counties). The questions were transferred through 50 rural teachers  who have never left their hometown in their entire life, to primary pupils in Shanghai. And these teachers also got a chance to tour Shanghai Expo under the funding of Shanghai Overseas Compatriots Fund, East China Normal University, Phoenix Meida, Juneyao Airlines and Xinmin Evening, etc.

Cui Yongyuan (崔永元), a famous TV anchor who used to host the most popular social talkshow of China named Tell it straight (实话实说), is one of the masterminds behind this serial event to support countryside teachers’ visit to cities. According to Cui, who had trekked the Long March route from 2006 to 2007 and besaddened by the lack of information in those remote rural areas, there are altogether 5 million countryside teachers in China who are teaching over 100 million students in over 330,000 countryside schools. Their own vision and experience will influence the next generation of Chinese citizens in the countryside.

The Phoenix Media and Xinmin Media published many works of these students from the countryside:

http://gongyi.ifeng.com/special/xcjs/

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The interesting life of rural families, by Hai Jinhua, Grade Six, Liangshan Central School

2f62736d6b17fba389aa5aaf4450f414 little dancers in a village school.