He eats nothing between leaving home at 6.30am – for a two-hour trek down the mountain to Ruiyuan primary school – and returning at 5pm.

30离家后到晚上5点回家前，这段时间他就再没有吃过任何东西了，其间还要走两个小时的山路到达瑞元小学。

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Only half of the students who begin primary school complete the cycle, leaving far too many children without basic mastery of language and mathematics and the acquisition of life skills.

只有一半的学生能完成初等教育，还有很多孩子不能掌握基础语言和数学运算及生活技能。

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His colleague Dr Chris Hughes said 17% of children had not reached adequate levels of literacy and numeracy when leaving primary school.

BBC: Education Committee

For the first time since the tests began in 1995, the number of pupils leaving primary school with an acceptable grasp of English fell.

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The report says there are up 12 million people holding down jobs with literacy skills and up to 16 million with numeracy skills at the level expected of children leaving primary school.

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