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Boarding schools give wings to children in Xinjiang's remote areas

STORY: Boarding schools give wings to children in Xinjiang's remote areas DATELINE: March 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:14 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: EDUCATION/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Reskam Village and Ayizmal Mirzjan STORYLINE: Reskam Village, which means "land with ores" in the Tajik language, is a border village located in the southwesternmost part of the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. At an altitude of over 3,000 meters, with several major rivers and mountains stretching through, the village of more than 8,000 square kilometers used to see its residents' settlements scattered in a dozen of relatively inhabitable valleys. The complex landscape and extreme weather used to restrain the accessibility to education for the children of Reskam for generations. One day ahead of the spring semester, 11-year-old Ayizmal Mirzjan and her friends left their home village deep in the mountains of the Pamir Plateau for school. It was the first time th

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Boarding schools give wings to children in Xinjiang's remote areas