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Rural classroom gets new desks as Macheng government reacts to outcry

Local leaders are shamed into providing the youngsters with basic equipment after public anger over badly funded system

One of the pictures that sparked the public backlash. Photo: AFP

Hubei teacher Zhong Fuhai was stunned recently when new desks and benches were delivered to his shabby, one-classroom school in Macheng's Shunhe township.

Zhong, the only teacher at the Nangang School, said its dozen or so pupils had been using desks and benches brought to the school by their parents for years because local schools were not given a budget for such things.