Video produced by Vicky Feng for the South China Morning Post
For her first day ever at school today – the first day of Hong Kong’s school year – six-year-old Ma Ho-chun will take at least two hours to get to her primary school in Wong Tai Sin from her home in Shenzhen. Ho-chun’s sister, seven-year-old Ma Wang-ka, has been doing this for a year since she was admitted to Baptist Rainbow Primary School, the same school Ho-chun will be studying at.
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