An on-line education program produced by a prestigious Beijing-based middle school has reached the Altay Uygur prefecture of northwest China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region via the Internet and satellite.

Kang Jian, head of the Middle School Attached to Peking University, one of Beijing's leading middle schools, said the on-line education program includes films which will help students in the country's educationally backward areas share resources with their city counterparts.

The Middle School Attached to Peking University, together with China Legend Group Limited, the country's leading computer company, also donated equipment to two middle schools in Altay prefecture, helping them receive the education program via Internet or via satellite.

The school has also donated similar education programs to students in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, in accordance with the requirements by the Ministry of Education to spread education to the country's economically and educationally backward areas through high technology.

(Xinhua News Agency August 5, 2003)