Believed to be the first institution of its kind in Central China, a night school for students of business courses was established at Kaojao in the northern district of Pootung Saturday morning, the "Tairiku Shimpo" said yesterday morning The new school will offer two-hour evening classes for the benefit of those Chinese youths who are working during the day-time, Among the teachers are three young men who formerly were active in the ranks of anti-Japanese guerillas. One of them, Chin Hsing-yen, a graduate of Great China University, was at one time chief of a unit of the Fifth War Zone Guerilla Corps.
Educational, cultural and industrial conditions in the Kaojao district were showing steady improvement, the paper said. In the area are 13 schools with 5,000 pupils out of a total of 73 under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Special Municipality. The Kaojao First Model Primary School has 1,400 pupils, the largest number of any school of its kind in Central China, the daily stated,
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