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CHONGQING, CHINA - MARCH 20: Students study on the playground at the Chepan Primary School of Baima Township ton March 20, 2007 in Chongqing Municipality, China. There are 103 students in the school and most of them are from the Chepan Village with an altitude of 1,200 meters (about 3,936 feet), where students have to travel a long way on the mountainous roads to school everyday. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that the central government will implement free mandatory education for school age children. A total of 150 million rural students in China will reportedly be exempt from paying tuition and fees associated with a nine-year curriculum, when the second phase of the programme is implemented in the spring semester of 2007.
