Life at the smallest elementary school

Updated: 2015-03-24 06:15

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Using his hands to keep off the rain, a child runs to the classroom in the cold winter rain at Dalishan elementary school in Longyou County of Zhejiang province. [Photo/qq.com]

Liao said the school enrolls students every two years since too few students come. But it's comforting that the students study hard, though most of them are left-over children.

Extreme weather and poor family conditions do not deter the students, who demonstrate a passion for their studies and dream of making it outside the mountain.

The other staff member, also surnamed Liao, is a guard, chef and cleaner at the school. Though he is more than sixty years old, he says he will work as long as possible.