Yan Zufu, 52, carries a student and leads others through a river in Shazipo Town, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, October 13, 2006. Yan has been a teacher for 32 years in this mountainous region of the Miao ethnic minority area. In 1990, he started to prepare construction materials for a school, such as making bricks. [Zhao Hui/Guizhou Metropolis Daily]

Eighteen children pose for a picture at a village in Ziyun Miao and Buyi Autonomous County in Southwest China's Guizhou Province, January 22, 2006. Among them, twelve children's parents left the village to work in big cities in coastal areas. [Zhao Hui/Guizhou Metropolis Daily]

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