Grade five students at Taicang Zhenyang Primary School explore intangible cultural heritage items like paper-cutting, metal painting, and wheat straw painting. [Photo/jschina.com.cn]

Primary and junior high school students in cities across Jiangsu province have benefited from a new education policy that took effect at the start of the current semester.

Students in different school can take part in various clubs, which cover a wide range of activities like basketball, badminton, singing, drawing, and handicrafts, to develop their personal interests.

Students in a primary school in Nanjing play basketball during after-school service time. [Photo/IC]

Students try their hands at making clay crafts in the after-school service time at Wuxi Chongninglu Experimental Primary School. [Photo/ourjiangsu.com]

An instructor teaches paper-cutting to students at Rugao Foreign Language School during the after-school service time. The school offers various activities based on the idea of cultivating students' interests and passing on traditional Chinese culture. [Photo/jschina.com.cn]