This is due to the establishment of the Shenzhen Distance E-education Network two and a half years ago. Web education has been practised in full scale in Shenzhen Middle School.
All faculty members have the access to the Internet.
Teachers can prepare their lectures in the Internet reading room while students can browse and surf on the net to gain knowledge. Some students are even able to go on a virtual tour on the web and make friends with university and middle school students all around the world. Students' English is improved unintentionally through reading and writing e-mails, information not available in the textbooks is found on the net, and even some personal homepages are set up with the help of teachers. Web education helps to fill in the gap of teaching quality between different areas of the city. Take Shenzhen Middle School and Longcheng Middle School for example.