By Huang Zhiling (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-06-23 20:31

"From that day to June 22, classes resumed for some 12,000 primary and high school students. Some 4,000 of them who will sit for the college entrance examination early next month returned to classrooms in the Wenjiang district of Chengdu on May 19," said Wang Peijun, an leading official with the Dujiangyan municipal education bureau.

"With the opening of the 45 makeshift schools, classes have resumed for all the primary and high school students in the city," Wang told China Daily.

Students in the Wanchuan School receive 30,000 yuan (US$4,348) worth of schoolbags and stationery on Monday morning from officials from Anhui Province which has built the school.[China Daily/Huang Zhiling]

The Wanchuan School, which is the largest makeshift school built after the earthquake, was built by East China’s Anhui province. Covering 8 hectares, it has 167 classes holding 7,000 students from the city’s six primary and high schools whose buildings were damaged in the earthquake.

Late last month, five cities and prefectures in Anhui started construction of the 45 makeshift schools in Dujiangyan with 110 million yuan (US$16 million) from the Anhui provincial finance.

"In only 17 days, they finished construction of the Wanchuan School," Liang said When Liu Jinchi, a third grader in the Wanchuan School, attended yesterday's sports class, she had a pleasant surprise that her teacher offered the class psychological counseling in order to get rid of their fear of the earthquake.

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