More than 670 students in Gansu province have won their school back after the local government decided not to tear it down as planned.

Officials in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu, yielded on Saturday to public pressure over the demolition of the century-old Lanyuan Primary School, promising not to bulldoze it to make way for a central business district.

Yu Haiyan, Party chief of Lanzhou, announced the decision after he and the city government were under fire for the demolition plan.