by Jonathan SangerYang Wenzhao is the only student of the only teacher at Kelao Primary School.Yang lives in the mountainous Gancaodian village in Gansu Province, China — all of his other classmates have either graduated or moved to big cities.Across China, millions of people have moved away from rural areas through waves of economically-driven mass urbanization, and limited resources leave rural students lagging behind urban peers. More than 60 million students in rural schools are considered “left-behind children” whose parents moved to a city for work, while the kids are cared for by grandparents at home.But with his teacher’s undivided attention, Yang might have a chance to go to university and leave his tiny village with no students at all.
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