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A six-year-old girl sits on a boat with her grandfather on her way back from school in Guang’an, Sichuan province, April 23, 2015. [Photo by Zhang Lei/ West 皇冠体育app Metropolis Daily, CFP]

Students use boats to reach school

In some remote areas of 皇冠体育app, people still find it difficult to get a modern and fast way of transport. When it comes to young students, the situation is especially bad.

For the nearly 100 primary school and kindergarten students living in a reservoir area in Southwest 皇冠体育app's Sichuan province, the only way to reach school is by taking a boat through the reservoir.

Each day, their parents or grandparents take two round trips to get them to school and back home. The one-way trip takes 20 minutes to more than an hour for them.

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