Boatman teacher

Despite the lure of better opportunities away from home, two teachers from Lipu in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have remained committed to giving their students an education. Li Yang meets the dedicated pair.

Zhang Fuyou, 60, has been a "boatman teacher" since 1975. He ferries primary school pupils from villages in the Dalong town of Lipu county in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region across a reservoir to Dajiang Primary School every day.

Together with several villages, the school was separated from the other villages in 1958 when a river was dammed to form a large reservoir.