Junior three graders go back to school at the No. 8 Middle School in Kashgar Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, March 15, 2020. For the graduating senior high school student in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Monday's classes are different from those she has taken over the past two weeks: They have finally shifted from online to offline. Monday marks the first day of offline schooling of the new semester for students in their final years of senior and junior high schools and vocational schools in Xinjiang, one of the first provincial regions across the country to reopen classrooms amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic. As the epidemic's risks still dim in other parts of China, more schools will resume classes. (Xinhua/Ding Lei)
