![CHINA-SCHOOL-EDUCATION-POPULATION Children sing after raising the national flag.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-2.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
By TIME Staff
Agence France-Presse photographer Fred Dufour documents one of China’s nearly 150 schools which aim to spread the Red Army spirit, patriotism, and discipline.
[AFP]
![CHINA-EDUCATION-POPULATION A child wearing a uniform waits to raise the national flag on Jan. 21, 2015 at the Beichuan Red army elementary school in Beichuan, southwest China's Sichuan province.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-9.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHINA-EDUCATION-POPULATION Children sing after raising the national flag.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-8.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHINA-SCHOOL-EDUCATION-POPULATION Children sing after raising the national flag.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-2.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHINA-EDUCATION-POPULATION Children march after raising the national flag.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-7.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHINA-SCHOOL-EDUCATION-POPULATION Children wait to enter their classroom.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-6.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHINA-SCHOOL-EDUCATION-POPULATION Children during class.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-4.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHINA-EDUCATION-POPULATION Children take their lunch.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-5.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHINA-SCHOOL-EDUCATION-POPULATION Children during lunch.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-3.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHINA-SCHOOL-EDUCATION-POPULATION A boy waits at the Beichuan Red army elementary school.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/red-army-school-china-1.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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