Six-year old Zhu Yanyan has just finished her first semester at school. It could also be her last for a while, because the school, and the urban village that surrounds it, have been marked for demolition.
Yanyan, the daughter of migrant workers living in Beijing, says she knows they will soon have to make way for high-rises. But, pink-faced in the family's tiny, cold living room, she falls silent when asked where she will next go to school.
Yanyan's school, the Yuying School in the village of Shangezhuang in Beijing's Chaoyang district, is among dozens of schools for children from migrant families facing demolition in the capital. And that could force thousands of pupils to drop out or leave their parents and return to hometown schools.
Yanyan's father is a scrap dealer and her mother is a cleaner at Capital University of Economics and Business. They earn less than 2,000 yuan (HK$2,273) a month and pay 600 yuan in rent and utilities a month. Annual tuition for Yanyan and her elder brother amounts to 2,400 yuan.
Yanyan's 63-year-old grandfather, Duan Jiayou , who comes from a backwater town in Xinyang, Henan , said they had been given until February 28 to move out of the village, but had not figured out where to go or if they could find a new school before the new semester starts in a few weeks.
'A lot of other places are also facing demolition and we might have to wait to see if we can follow principal Yang to a place where he can set up a new school,' Duan said.