Middle and high schools in Dongguan were bustling again on Monday as some 92,004 graduating students returned after almost 100 days of closure due to winter vocation and the COVID-19 outbreak.

A total of 229 middle and high schools in the city reopened to students in graduating classes and carried out strict preventive measures to ensure their safety.

Students in the final year of junior high schools line up to enter Chang’an Experimental Middle School in batches at 7:30 am, April 27. Students in the final year of senior and junior high schools returned to school in Dongguan and embraced their new spring semester on Monday.