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Child's play: Coding booms among Chinese children

Zhou Ziheng's eight-year-old son Vita teaches an online coding class used by adults and children in China.

Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a red T-shirt, an eight-year-old Chinese boy is logged in for an online coding lesson -- as the teacher.

Vita has set up a coding tutorial channel on the Chinese video streaming site Bilibili since August and has so far garnered nearly 60,000 followers and over one million views.

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