HKIEd teachers and students have been actively involved in supporting China's educational development and teacher training. Earlier this year, a group of final year students with a genuine concern for education in the impoverished mountain areas of mainland China initiated the "Mountain Train Programme" after a voluntary teaching trip to Hunan Province. The programme seeks to promote voluntary teaching in China's mountain districts on an ongoing basis. Furthermore, in July 2006, a team of teachers and students from the Department of Chinese travelled to two remote towns in Guangxi Province to introduce new teaching concepts to school principals and teachers in local schools.