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    A CLASS ACT

    Mar 25, 2021 5 minutes
    By Ji Jing

    Gong Weiquan is the headmaster of a middle school in a village in Yunnan Province in southwest China. But last October, he was given a task, just like his students. Gong took part in a training program for middle school headmasters from remote rural areas organized by Beijing-based Capital Normal University (CNU) where the participants were asked to draw a self-portrait.

    Gong’s drawing was laden with symbolism. It showed him plodding forward, but a river and a high mountain blocked his way. Behind him people were walking away from him.

    Gong captioned the image to explain the difficulties he faced at work: “There are rivers that are hard to cross, mountains that are hard to climb, and people that are hard to take

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