Professional Peking Opera actors perform for students in a classroom of Hamidao primary school in Tianjin, North China, February 26, 2008. The country's Ministry of Education announced on February 21 a pilot program to teach students in primary and secondary schools its traditional Peking Opera in 10 provinces and municipalities from March to July next year. The new Peking Opera curriculum is not compulsory, but promotional. [Xinhua]