This article is reprinted from Xinhua News Agency.

The spring and summer of 2020 were special preparatory seasons for senior three students. The examinees sweated and shed tears as they studied via the Internet. Compared with urban students, those in remote areas faced more formidable challenges. How to write their own college entrance examination stories under circumstances of scarce hardware devices and educational resources posed a new challenge to them.

At this time, the Gaokao crash course TAL Charitable Foundation classes from Xueersi Online School and TAL Smart Education, transmitted from thousands of miles away via the internet, became a beacon for senior high school students in remote areas preparing for exams during the pandemic.

Let's turn our attention to Duoba Town in Huangzhong County, Xining City, Qinghai Province. The mountains cut off their connection with the outside world, but they did not stop the children's thirst for knowledge.

Duoba Middle School is a county-level model middle school in the local area. The sudden epidemic disrupted the normal teaching order.

"The epidemic had a particularly great impact on senior three students. There were only a little more than 100 days left before the college entrance examination, and every day was precious. How to ensure normal classes became a difficult problem," said Mr. Zhang, the head of the senior three section at Duoba Middle School, who was once very worried.

Mr. Zhang and the school leaders at their wits' end, and the students and their parents were even more worried. At that time, the TAL Education Foundation recommended the college entrance examination sprint public-welfare courses offered by Xueersi Online School and TAL Education's Smart Education to remote areas, and Duoba County was one of them.

The following are the notes of Duoba Middle School students on the college entrance examination public-welfare courses:

As a physics teacher, Mr. Zhang and teachers of other subjects took the lead in previewing the courses. After confirming the quality, they recommended them to the students. These courses were recorded by experienced senior high school teachers from Xueersi Online School and covered all subjects such as Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, biology, politics, history, and geography.

The stars did not fail those who traveled by night. Thanks to the "bonus" of Xueersi's college entrance examination public-welfare sprint courses, Duoba Middle School achieved some new breakthroughs in that year's college entrance examination results. That year, the undergraduate enrollment rate reached 78%, with an increase of approximately 100 students admitted to undergraduate programs compared with the previous year. Among them, the highest score in science was 639 points, and the highest score in liberal arts was 608 points, both of which ranked first in the county.

When the results came out, the Xueersi Online School teachers involved in the college entrance examination public-welfare courses were extremely excited. One teacher wrote the following words: Those days that seemed to be uneventful day after day, those shouts and passions across the screen, all took on profound significance at this moment.

The college entrance examination TAL Charitable Foundation during the epidemic transmitted knowledge as well as dreams and love. Through a screen, Xueersi Online School was connected with children in remote areas thousands of miles away. Duoba Middle School was just one of the connection points.

It is understood that during the epidemic, the TAL Education Foundation launched the college entrance examination sprint TAL Charitable Foundation offered by Xueersi Online School and TAL Education's Smart Education to 31 poverty-stricken counties (including 21 national-level poverty-stricken counties) in 29 cities across 12 provinces nationwide. Meanwhile, the free live-streaming courses of Xueersi Online School also constructed a learning bridge connecting thousands of children in remote areas with the partners and schools of the TAL Education Foundation. Knowledge, flows like an endless river from one side of the screen to the other, linked love and dreams together.