CHENGDU, Sept.2(Xinhua)-- About 7.5 chinese hoseholds turned intoaprogram on emergency survival presented by basketball star TaoMingand other members of China's Olympic team on monday, ChinacentralTelevision said on Tuesday.
"the First Class:, aired nationwide by CCTV from 7 p.m. to9p.m.,was scheduled to coincide with the start of theacademicfallsemester and would be played as part of thenationalcurriculum,according to the CCTV.
It was considered a ratings success for aneducationalprogrambroacast during prime time and it would be airedthree moretimesduring peak viewing hours at the weekend in responsetopublicfeedback.
Jontly produced with the Ministry of Education,"TheFirst Class" features was divided into fourunits. YaoMingand 17 national basketball players presented onelesson,helping anelderly man and four children escape flooding byclimbingonto afive-meter high vine frame.
At the end of the unit, China's eightOlympicweight-liftingchampions helps 24 students from sangzaomiddleschool, in AnXianCounty, in bulding evacuation during asimulatedearquake.
During the may 12 earthquake, all of the school's 2,300studentsandteachers evacuated the buldings to an open areawithin9senconds, a result ofevacation drillsconductedsince 2005.
program supervisor Xu Wenguang said " the firstclass"wasplanned as the first in a series of " lifeeducation"program,Which would include themes such aschracterbuilding.
"I want to make it a long-team program, A brand name ofourchannel,"said Xu.
The program was also intendstosupport emergency survivaltraing in schools, Whichhad been stepped up since thedevastating may 12earthquake.
All 3.4 million students inthe SiChuanqukezone returned to school on Money, aprovincialeducationofficial said, adding that all would enjoyfreeeducation.
About 33 percent of students returned totheirformerschools, Which were unaffected in theearthquake,38percent returned to building that had been reinforced,while28.4percent were were studying in prefabricated classrooms,saidTuWentao, head of provincial education deparment.
Almost 20,000 students in the west-hit areaswould havetoleave their home towns to seek schools. About11,000wouldstudy in 16 other cities in the province.Therestwould begin classes in 25 other provinces, incldingguangdongandshanghai, he said.
" We will not tolerate a single students dropingoutofschool because of the disaster and poverty."
Shanghai middle school student fount "SiChuanearthquake"content in their Chinese text books thissemester, inthe categoryof " dealing with disater", teachingstudents how tostandup to difficulties and setbacks in theirlives.
This semester also marked the start of nine-yearfreecompulsoryeducation for China's 28.21 million urbanprimaryand middleschool students.
The Student still must pay for textbooks anduniforms.About 150million rural students alreadly benefitfrom thepolicy.