Lin Hao, the 9-year-old national hero who saved two classmates from a collapsed school building during the Sichuan earthquake, has relocated his school desk to Shanghai.

The Tongyuan Experimental Primary School in Shanghai's Zhabei District has enrolled Lin for the new term.

His bravery became known to the country and the entire world when he marched into the "Bird's Nest" stadium with basketball star Yao Ming during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on August 8.

Lin was a grade-two pupil when his school in Sichuan's Yingxiu Town was flattened by the earthquake. He will repeat the second grade, as Shanghai primary schools teach English from grade one, much earlier than schools in Sichuan.

Lin, who said he can handle Chinese literature and mathematics, borrowed Shanghai text books and asked his elder sister to help him learn English. The boy's new school also dispatched an English teacher to help him.

Shanghai is also helping the child recover from his physical injuries. In June, a local hospital gave him a hair transplant to cover the scar left by a scalp injury suffered during the rescue. He said he was satisfied that the surgery had allowed him to "become handsome again."

During the May 12 quake, only 10 out of his 31 classmates survived.