Stu­dents used to spend up to six hours dai­ly to trav­el to and from the school in the pur­suit of knowl­edge. After 23 years, the gov­ern­ment closed the school when the vil­lagers raised con­cerns. A gov­ern­ment spokesper­son said that the clo­sure of the school was nec­es­sary because Chi­na was not a “soci­ety of cave­men”.