Les jeunes écoliers chinois Calligraphie apprendre dans une école pendant leurs vacances d'été dans la ville de Binzhou Zouping County, à l'Est, la province de Shandong, Chine
Young Chinese schoolchildren learn calligraphy at a school during their summer vacation in Zouping county, Binzhou city, east Chinas Shandong province, 10 July 2013. As summer vacation proceeds, various training courses such as dancing, piano playing, painting and handwriting unfold for school children across China. While some children attend these courses of their interests, a large number of children are burdened to take courses owing to their parents wishes to gain more competitive edge in the future. Meanwhile, the countrys training market booms due to such large demands. Although all parents hope that their children will be happy, Chinese parents have the added pressure of living with an education system that is highly competitive, one in which their childrens future success depends largely on getting admitted into key schools that command the majority of education resources. One student posted on his microblog: I was looking forward to my summer vacation but I only got to enjoy a week of it. Now I have to attend the third school semester my parents arranged for me. According to media reports, two thirds of Chinese children attend some sort of summer course, with some of them being as young as 7 years old. In the context of Chinas exam-oriented education system, every score counts towards future school admission. In China, where academic achievement has not only been traditionally valued, but may also directly translate to future success, parents usually invest a lot of money to gain an educational advantage for their children, meaning that children have no time to play.
