Pupils take up books, pens, and hand-stoves in cold weather
2011-01-07 02:47:02 GMT2011-01-07 10:47:02 (Beijing Time)
China Daily
A makeshift hand-stove is placed along a student's desk at a school in Chaping township, Xinhuang Dong autonomous county in Central China's Hunan province, Jan 6, 2011. Without a heating system at school, students have to take along their makeshift hand-stoves to keep warm. [Photo/Xinhua]
Holding makeshift hand-stoves, students walk to school on an iced mountain road in Xinhuang Dong autonomous county in western-most Hunan province, Jan 6, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]
Holding makeshift stoves, students walk on their way home after school on an iced mountain road in Xinhuang Dong autonomous county in western-most Hunan province, Jan 6, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]
A makeshift hand-stove is placed under a student's seat at a school in Chaping township, Xinhuang Dong autonomous county in Central China's Hunan province, Jan 6, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]
Students dine around their makeshift hand-stoves at a school in Chaping township, Xinhuang Dong autonomous county in Central China's Hunan province, Jan 6, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]
Pupils carried makeshift hand-stoves to school in Chaping township, Xinhuang Dong autonomous county in Central China's Hunan province, Jan 6, 2011.
Without a heating system at school, students have to take along their makeshift hand-stoves to keep warm. The stoves are made from different materials, such as metal bucket and washbowl.
Xinhuang county, located in western-most Hunan, has been hit by severe freeze brought by cold snap from the north recently.
