In Guangxi, a good exam score earns a fish

A teacher at Jiangchuan Primary School in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county is giving out live carp as a reward to pupils for their good grades at the end of the school term on Friday. [Photo by Gong Pukang for chinadaily.com.cn]

Some 420 pupils received live carp as a reward for outstanding academic performance in their recently concluded final exam on Friday in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Each fish weighed about 1 kilogram.

Jiangchuan Primary School, which distributed the fish, said it was the sixth consecutive semester that students were motivated by live carp — a symbol of good fortune.

All students at the school live in the Nanzhan community, where all residents had been relocated from poor and remote areas of the county.

Grinning students collect their fish. [Photo by Gong Pukang for chinadaily.com.cn]

Primary school students show off the fish they received for good academic performance in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo by Gong Pukang for chinadaily.com.cn]

Some 420 pupils received live carp for their outstanding academic performance on their final exam on Friday in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo by Gong Pukang for chinadaily.com.cn]

Primary school students show off the fish they received for good academic performance in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo by Gong Pukang for chinadaily.com.cn]