Chinanews, Beijing, Aug 17 - “ant，ant，all so small…”On Wednesday, several kids were singing a song in their wards at Shanghai Children's Medical Center. A group of volunteers were teaching them English. It didn't seem like a hospital here—the walls were painted with bright colors and some toys and books were placed on the floor. The room was filled with a warm atmosphere, the People's Daily reported.He Jiajia, 7, came to Shanghai Children's Medical Center to take an operation on appendicitis. She was recovering now and she began to like the volunteers in the hospital.Everyday, whenever they had time, the volunteers, a group of teachers from Pudong Nanlu Primary School, would come to Shanghai Children's Medical Center to visit the kids. They played games with the children and also gave them some lessons from time to time. In fact, Shanghai Children's Medical Center is not the only case in point, for, starting from September 1, all children who stay in hospitals in Shanghai will receive some lessons free of charge. With this, Shanghai is to become the first city in China where compulsory education will be given to children in hospitals.In Shanghai, 99.8% of the children at school age have received compulsory education. Despite this, local government did not neglect the 0.2% of children who were excluded from the compulsory education system. In order to make sure that every child in Shanghai could receive compulsory education, officials from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission turned their attention to this special group of children.The Shanghai Municipal Education Commission has recently announced that starting from the fall semester, school courses will be given to children who stay in Xinhua Hospital, the Affiliated Fudan University Children's Hospital, Shanghai Children's Hospital, and Shanghai Children's Medical Center. According to a rough calculation, the new measure will benefit some 800 children who cannot go to school due to some chronic diseases.Zhu Jing is a teacher who works at the Dong Li Feng Mei Kang Jiang School, a school opened for retarded children in Shanghai's Xuhui District. Apart from her usual daily courses, every weekend she will visit with an eight-year-old child Tong Tong, who suffer from brain failure, and give the latter some rehabilitation training.Last April, Shanghai municipal government announced that it would give individual trainings to some 804 children who suffered heavily from physical disabilities. This might be the last group of children that were not covered by the country's compulsory education system.