Pupils clean a W.C. of a primary school in Zhijin County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Oct. 23, 2018. In 2006, a "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools" program was jointly implemented by the Ministry of Education and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to provide safe drinking water, improve sanitation facilities and promote hygienic behavior at schools in rural areas of the country's less developed central and western regions. As from 2016, some schools in southwest China's Guizhou and Yunnan provinces have been chosen as the pilot schools. Starting from the year of 1979, the UNICEF has invested over 675 million US dollars for improving the living condition and education for Chinese children on over 160 programmes cooperated with the Chinese government. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)
