In Guangxi, a good exam score earns a fish

Some 420 pupils received live carp as a reward for outstanding academic performance in their recently concluded final exam on Friday in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Each fish weighed about 1 kilogram.

Jiangchuan Primary School, which distributed the fish, said it was the sixth consecutive semester that students were motivated by live carp — a symbol of good fortune.

All students at the school live in the Nanzhan community, where all residents had been relocated from poor and remote areas of the county.

Xu Weicheng contributed to this story.