Mudslide-hit students leave home for new semester

A teacher (R) passes a new schoolbag to a student who is among 1,000 students and teachers to be transferred to Lanzhou to start the new semester in the mudslide-hit Zhouqu, Northwest China's Gansu province, Aug 28, 2010. More than 3,000 high school students from Zhouqu had to wait to be transferred to Dingxi City and Gansu's capital city of, Lanzhou to start their new school year on Sep. 1. The students will be divided into three groups in the transfer, to be carried out on August 28, 29 and 30. [Photo/Xinhua] 

Yao Caijuan, a senior high school student, cries when she thinks of her younger sister, who died during the mudslide in Zhouqu, Northwest China's Gansu province. Yao is among the first batch of 1,000 students and teachers to be transferred to Lanzhou, capital city of Gansu to start the new semester. [Photo/Xinhua]