"The Burmese students only need to show the proof of identification translated by the Bureau of Migration along with the birth certificates and then they can register into the school and enjoy a preferential policy of 4 entries within a day.”, said the school president Sun.

It's in the first frontier primary school in China, Yinjing School, which is located in the small city of Ruili, a China-Burma borderland city in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Out of 153 students in the school, there are 65 students who are of the Burmese nationality and are called “the little foreign students”.

The school president, Sun Jialiang, said that amongst the 65 Burmese students, the youngest student is only 5 years old, “in the past 4 years, the number of Burmese students in the Yinjing School has always accounted for over 40% of the total. Nowadays, there are a lot of Burmese parents who like to send their children to China to go to primary school. ”

At the moment, the Yinjing School includes preschool class, 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade, opening Chinese, Thai and Burmese language curriculums which practice tri-lingual teaching.

There are 6 teachers in the school. The Yinjing School mostly recruits students from villager groups of the Yinjing and Nanrui villages as well as students of the right age from Dai villages in the neighboring Burma borderland. The Burmese students in the school wear traditional clothes which include white shirts and green skirts.

Apart from this, the Burmese students can also enjoy China’s 9-year compulsory education policy which offers nutritious breakfasts as well as two exemptions and one allowance etc. Furthermore, due to safety reasons, the school students are always sent to school and sent back home by the frontier guards. 

The Yinjing Primary School is the first frontier primary school in China which was jointly established by the Yinjing School and the Yinjing Frontier Inspection Station. The school and the inspection station have particularly established the "Sunshine Project” Foundation which sponsors Chinese and Burmese poverty students to complete their school.