Pictures: School build Running Track on Roof of Building

 An elementary school in Tiantai, in China’s Zhejiang Province, has a 200-meter running track built on its roof. It’s a strange place to have children running, but the school’s authorities didn’t have much of a choice. There wasn’t any construction land available on the campus grounds, so they figured a track on the roof is better than no track at all.

 The unusual roof-track is good enough to meet the physical education needs of the school’s 1,600 students. It is equipped with all sorts of safety measures – there are three protective layers to keep the kids safe. Surrounding the track at the very outer edge is a six-foot glass wall. The wall closest to the track is four foot tall, and there’s a green belt sandwiched between the two walls. Authorities have also installed surveillance cameras to constantly monitor student activity.