People attend the Stranavigli Water Race held at the Naviglio Grande on July 16, 2011 in Milan, Italy. Stranavigli Water Race is an annual creative contest on the water. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, attends the Macworld Conference and Expo July 18, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Fire fighters attend a drill session during the Jilin Fire Fighting Emergency Rescue Drill On Setpember 28, 2011 in Changchun, Jilin Province of China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

Bella Hadid attends the fittings for the Victoria Secret Fashion Show 2017 on August 28, 2017 in New York City, USA. (Photo by MediaPunch/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Tomasz Alen Kopera, Polish painter, was born in Kozuchow, Poland. He attended the University of Technology in Wroclaw, where he gained a degree in Engineering.

Australian World War Two veterans place crosses and flags at graves before attending the French-British ceremony at the British War cemetery in Bayeux, June 6, 2014. REUTERS/Leon Neal/Pool

Hunched at his desk and staring intently at the blackboard, Hu Yang looks like any other industrious schoolboy. But this ordinary eight-year-old finds himself in a unique position. He is the only pupil to attend his elementary school in, Fujian Province, China.