New semester begins across China (newsphoto) Updated: 2005-09-01 16:58
 First graders raise their hands to answer a teacher's
question at a primary school in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province
September 1, 2005. All schools across China opened the new semester on
Thursday. [newsphoto]
 Zhang Lanmei, 33, becomes a first-grader, together
with her son, at a primary school in Changfeng county, Anhui Province
September 1, 2005, the beginning of the new semester. She did not attend
school because of poverty and now becomes a "mother pupil" at the school.
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Students of a primary
school in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, return to school after summer vacation
September 1, 2005. [newsphoto] |
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