-PHOTO TAKEN 29OCT02- Chinese students do morning exercises to music from a boom box before...

-PHOTO TAKEN 29OCT02- Chinese students do morning exercises to music from a boom box before classes at the Number One Project Hope School in the Longchang township near the city of Kaili in the Chinese province of Guizhou on October 29, 2002. China says it has the largest educational system in the world. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, 1.35 million schools had been established, and 320 million people were enrolled in schools in 2001. Charity groups like Project Hope have played an important role in improving the educational situation in poor areas and in implementing the nine-year compulsory education programme. Picture taken October 29, 2002.