Dream becomes reality for young rural teacher

Together with 16 students and seven fellow teachers, Wang Bo attended the first national flag-raising ceremony of the new semester on Sept 1.

The 22-year-old became the youngest teacher at Xingmu Primary School in September 2021 after graduating from Jilin Normal University in Siping. When he arrived at the school, which is located in a mountainous part of Jilin's Yitong Manchu autonomous county, it was far smaller than he had imagined.

"Although I had prepared to be a teacher in the remote rural school, I was surprised when I found out that I would become a head teacher to just three students," he said. "It was very different from what I had learned at university."