Couple teaches students IT skills

YINCHUAN－For students in China's metropolises, learning computer programming from foreign teachers is a rare opportunity. However, in the underdeveloped western region, an Indian couple has been teaching the subject for four years.

Nitesh Singh and his wife, Sucharita Kundu, have been teaching computer programming and IT English at Ningxia University in Yinchuan, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, since 2017.

This year, they have taken on a bigger workload as some foreign teachers are unable to return to China due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Every week, the couple flies to Guyuan city some 300 kilometers away to teach at Ningxia Normal University. Sometimes, the journey can take up to six hours as a flight is not available.