Details: Anhui is proud of two things, tea and teaching. In this episode we discover just how tough it is to excel in the Chinese education system - even if you go to a school with a top-class record.

There are 350 million children enrolled in further education across China, but 'Chinese School' takes as its subject one small town in rural Anhui, and focuses on the lives of a group of families, teachers and children during the course of a single academic year. They are schools like many thousands of others across this vast nation, but through the individual stories of hardship, joy and success, an extraordinary portrait emerges of a Nation, a town and a group of children in the midst of enormous change.