1 m tickets set aside for students

About 1 million Olympic tickets will be allocated to primary and secondary school students at low prices across the nation.

All schools in Beijing will be covered, an official from the municipal educational department said yesterday.

"A total of 400,000 Olympic tickets have been set aside for students in Beijing. They will be given a first-hand experience of the Games," Zhang Tiedao, vice-president of the Beijing academy of educational sciences, said.