First makeshift school completed in quake zone

The first temporary school in parts of southwest China's mountainous Yunnan province devastated by last week's earthquake was finished on Tuesday.

The school is on the same campus as the badly damaged Longtoushan central primary school and comprises 20 prefabricated rooms. There are classrooms, dorms, reading rooms and a canteen, said Xu Meng, secretary-general of the China Youth Development Foundation, which paid for the facilities.

The school will enable 500 students from the badly damaged school to start the new semester as scheduled on Sept 1. The foundation is funding two more similar primary schools in Longtoushan, and they are under construction.