Wen Jiabao in the classroom

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The Beijing News
September 7, 2009

Friday morning, September 4, Premier Wen Jiabao attended five periods of class at Beijing’s #35 Middle School.

The Premier’s morning schedule included a math lesson on congruent triangles, a look at Sun Li’s short story “The Reed Marshes,” a geography lesson on “the cradle of the Chinese people,” a lecture on research, and a music lesson on the song “May the World Be Filled With Love.” According to Xinhua’s account of the students’ impressions, Wen took copious notes.

Teacher’s Day in China falls on September 10, so the Premier’s visit included an afternoon meeting on the importance of education and the need to keep teachers’ salaries on par with civil servants.

Today’s front-page photo follows more than a week’s worth of similar feel-good stories on the front page of The Beijing News. Many of the featured stories so far this month have been related to the upcoming 60th anniversary celebrations: preparing downtown Beijing for the parade and drilling the soldiers who will be taking part. The H1N1 flu has been the only other major story, with a photo on the 1st of students getting their temperature checked, and a close-up of a new vaccine on the 4th.

Other Beijing newspapers have had similar cover photos, with the Beijing Times in lock-step with The Beijing News the past few days.

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