Beijing is the great crucible of social reinvention, and every child learns that hard work at school is a potential escape route from poverty.

BBC: A Beijing state of mind

With the mission of using service as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities, The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) is a student-powered hunger relief organization hard at work on 31 high school and college campuses.

WHITEHOUSE: Service as a Life and Legacy

"I don't take schoolwork with me when I travel -- I just work very hard when I'm at school in Guangzhou, " he said.

CNN: Chinese golfer, 13, to make European Tour history

Many of our current and future world innovators are still in high school and they are already hard at work creating solutions to major world challenges.

FORBES: Building A Generation of Sustainability Mavericks Because We Can, Or Because We Have To

They must work hard to escape poverty by going to school, do a good job at work and not be involved in crime.

CNN: Obama's 'quiet riots' are for real