Chinese kids start school with TV show
p2pnet view TV:- Some 220 million primary and middle school students across China started their new school terms by watching TV, yesterday morning.
As “instructed by the Ministry of Education (MOE)”, they were tuned in to an “inspiring television show ‘My Dream, Chinese Dream’ Wednesday, says state news agency Xinhua.
“The program, seeking to promote ambitious goals and a hardworking spirit among students, invited celebrities, including Yuan Longping, a scientist dubbed the ‘father of hybrid rice,’ Ma Yun, a self-made Internet business tycoon, movie star Li Lianjie, and disabled piano talent Liu Wei, among others, to share their dreams with the students, says the story.
“The TV program is hoped to inspire and educate young people to have dreams and work hard to realize them,” says Wang Dinghua, “an official in charge of primary and middle school affairs with the MOE”, it says.
“A person’s dream might be small, but when we get together, we will have a very big dream,” it has Li Lianjie, “the action movie star better known to English-speaking audiences as Jet Li (right), when delivering a speech in the program” stating.
He “hoped that children across the country would uphold their personal dreams with one hand and the nation’s dream with the other”, according to the story.
… and identi.ca
Xinhua – Chinese students start new semester by watching “Chinese Dream” TV program, September 1, 2010
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