THE city will build 200 children’s palaces throughout rural areas in the next two years, bringing the total number of children’s palaces in rural villages to 300.

    The locations will provide free venues, facilities and teachers for children in rural areas. No business activity, such as for-profit training schools, will be allowed in the palaces. Meanwhile, villagers are free to use the areas as community centers or libraries.

    There will also be a field with an athletics track, basketball court, football pitch, volleyball court and badminton court in the venues. Activity venues include an Internet room, multi-media room, library, technology room, music room, dance room, art room, calligraphy room, performance hall, table tennis room and snooker room.

    Students can have activities and free training at the venues. It will offer traditional training programs to teach students folk handicraft skills such as paper cutting, pottery making and knitting.

    (Wang Yuanyuan, Jia Zhen)