Pupils make tracks

Some of about 800 secondary school students and teachers from Hong Kong and Macau gather at Shenzhen railway station yesterday before departing on a 24-hour journey to Beijing, where they will spend a week studying under an exchange programme. The programme is aimed at giving secondary school students of grades four to seven an opportunity to enrich their knowledge of Chinese history, as well as cultural, socio-economic and technological developments. The students will tomorrow visit the Great Hall of the People, where they will meet top government officials. The group is scheduled to return to Hong Kong on Monday.