New changes in rural primary school
2021-10-15
During his visit to Hunan province last September, General Secretary Xi Jinping said to the students of the Diyipian Primary School of Wenming Yao Nationality Township in Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, "You are saplings today and will grow into a giant tree in the future. The Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will be realized by you. I hope you will inherit revolutionary genes, study hard, and grow into socialist builders and successors with all-round development.”
The Diyipian Primary School is located in Shazhou Village. Now, children in the mountains have new school buildings, modern teaching facilities and new teachers from big cities.
More than 100 students in 5 classes at Diyipian Primary School started their new semester on September 6.
The school has been equipped with an integrated teaching machine and multimedia system. At the school gate, a face recognition system was added to update information of children entering and leaving the campus to the parents; visual telephones have been installed, allowing left-behind children to contact their families.
Wenming Yao Nationality Township Central Primary School was put into use this semester. The school has 24 classes and 1,080 seats, which can provide modern formal education for children in Hantian, Xiushui, Wuyi and Xindong and other villages.
The school is divided into teaching, living and sports areas. Dust-free magnetic blackboards, eye-protection lamps and water dispensers are available in each classroom. The dormitories are equipped with toilets, shower stalls and lavatories.
In order to improve teaching conditions in impoverished areas, since 2017, Hunan has built one or two primary and middle schools for rural students in every remote county, especially counties in mountainous areas. These schools are named “Furong School”.
Up to now, a total of 101 such schools have been put into use, and more than 100,000 students in rural areas can enjoy high-quality education resources at their doorstep.
Central Primary School is one of them. Some students of Diyipian Primary School moved to Furong School this semester. “This is a far cry from the environment in which we studied. Our country attaches so much importance to rural education and I am so grateful," a parent said.
A nutrition improvement plan for students has covered 53 counties (cities or districts) in Hunan, benefiting 1.9841 million students by the end of June this year. The prevention and control of myopia campaign among children and teenagers has been carried out through vision health education, vision census and recording, myopia intervention and improved lighting facilities.
In the past four years, the number of teachers in the Diyipian Primary School has increased from 4 to 11. This year, the pairing school—Dongjun Primary School, Furong District, Changsha City sent two teachers to teach English and Chinese respectively.
Today, this rural primary school has one postgraduate, seven undergraduates and three junior college graduates as teachers. And Central Primary School has 69 faculty members, and all teachers have college diplomas or above. In this new semester, the school also welcomed 7 volunteer teachers from Chenzhou and other places.
In recent years, a series of policies have been implemented in Hunan to ensure rural teachers’ salaries, social insurance, medical security, continuing education and housing security, so as to establish a working mechanism for encouraging and guiding talents to go to the grass-roots and impoverished areas.
For a balanced development of education, Hunan has carried out a wide range of "pairing assistance": quality urban schools paired up with rural schools in need to provide online classes and other education resources.
Gao Lizhong, a volunteer teacher from Changsha, said that students in the Diyipian Primary School have a relatively weak learning foundation. They will get to know more about students through contacts, adjust teaching content and methods, so that students can lay a solid foundation and have happy learning.
Zhu Shuhua, narrator of Shazhou Red Scenic Area and great-granddaughter of of Xu Jiexiu, the protagonist of the story of "Half Quilt", was invited to the Diyipian Primary School to give an ideological lesson to the fourth grade students.
Zhu Shuhua hoped to let children know how they got their happy life and inherit revolutionary genes through vivid stories.
Zhu Xianwang, vice principal of Central Primary School, also gave a lesson to the fifth-grade students. "All of us are responsible for cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development," he noted.
Since this year, Rucheng County's primary and middle schools have strengthened red education, such as setting up red education-themed bulletin boards, holding class meetings for red stories, and organizing study tours at revolutionary sites.
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