Hebei Hengshui No. 1 Middle School changed its name to Hengshui Taihua Middle School. Is it just "changing the soup without changing the medicine"?

Hebei Hengshui No. 1 Middle School changed its name to Hengshui Taihua Middle School. Is it just "changing the soup without changing the medicine"? Let's discuss this issue below. We hope that these contents can help friends in need. .

Not long ago, Hengshui No. 1 Middle School (hereinafter referred to as Hengshui No. 1 Middle School) was renamed Hengshui Taihua Middle School. Although the school's official website has not been renamed, its encyclopedia has been. Tianyancha shows that your school is a non-profit enterprise and the qualification certificate is valid from January 29, 2022 to January 29, 2026.

In February 2013, Hebei Hengshui Middle School collaborated with Hebei Taihua Jinye Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Taihua Group). With a project investment of more than 900 million yuan, Hengshui No. 1 Middle School was completed and put into operation. In August 2014, Hengshui No. 1 Middle School was completed and put into use. Its management methods, teaching staff, recruitment, cultural education, and classroom teaching all relied on Hengshui Middle School.

The renaming of Hengshui No. 1 Middle School has long been planned. On June 1, 2017, the Hebei Provincial Department of Education stipulated that Hengshui Middle School and Hengshui No. 1 Middle School should be rectified. Five rectification requirements were clearly put forward for Hengshui No. 1 Middle School, including "establishing a legal person property rights regulation system for private schools as soon as possible and transferring property rights to the school's account."

At the same time, it is stipulated that the legal person of Hebei Hengshui Middle School cannot act on behalf of the legal person rights of Hengshui No. 1 Middle School, except that the official website of Hebei Hengshui Middle School involves information about Hengshui No. 1 Middle School; Hebei Hengshui Middle School teachers are assigned to private schools School teaching should be approved by the Hengshui Municipal Education Bureau and cannot affect the classroom teaching of Hebei Hengshui Middle School; when it comes to the content of publicity and planning for opening to the outside world, the three rectification requirements such as what happened at the same time as Hebei Hengshui Middle School and Hengshui No. 1 Middle School must not occur.

In July 2021, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice of the Ministry of Education and other eight departments on regulating the establishment of public schools or participation in the establishment of private compulsory education schools". In the future, "public participation" schools will either To become a public school, unless it is completely transferred to social planning and linked to the public sector, it cannot use the public school address or school name, nor can it use the public school brand for publicity or other activities.

Many private schools across the country have entered a wave of name changes, removing the name "public school" from their new names and further breaking away from the "public school" element. According to incomplete statistical analysis by Page Culture and Education, from January 2021 to the present, among non-public schools including international schools, 22, 16, 10 and 3 schools in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuxi and Dongguan have changed their names respectively.

Taking Guangzhou as an example, the names of renamed institutions can be roughly divided into two categories, including the names of famous universities or junior high schools, including CUHK departments, Chinese Normal University departments, Guangdong Foreign Language Departments, Chinese Affiliated Departments, and Guangdong Affiliated Departments. , Guangya Department, Sixth Middle School Department, etc. According to a report by Yangcheng Evening News at the end of last year, many famous public universities such as the High School Affiliated to South China Normal University and Guangdong Experimental High School have gradually removed school leaders and teachers who were previously stationed in private schools.

In September last year, the newly revised "Regulations on the Implementation of the Private Promotion Law" was announced and clearly stated the "six independence" provisions: private schools held by public schools or participating in the holdings should have the qualifications to be independent entities. It has a campus, basic education and teaching facilities and a separate teaching staff that are separate from public schools. It conducts independent accounting in accordance with the national unified accounting system, recruits students independently, and awards study qualification certificates independently.

"If it is just a name change, but the renamed private school does not achieve the above 'six independence', this may be the general trend." Xiong Bingqi from the 21st Century Education Research Institute told Page Culture and Education. According to Xiong Bingqi, Hengshui Middle School used the reputation of Hengshui No. 1 Middle School to cross regions and grab enrollment numbers, creating the so-called enrollment myth. This practice actually damages the local cultural and educational ecology and affects the recruitment discipline of Pugao, so it must be strictly rectified. It remains to be seen whether this name change can solve the existing problems of running schools in violation of regulations such as "not distinguishing between public and private schools".

Chinese education and scientific research researcher Chu Zhaohui told Page Culture and Education: “In accordance with the rectification of public schools and private schools, it will be further clarified after the name change that Hengshui Middle School is a public school and Hengshui No. 1 Middle School is a private school. Parents are not allowed to and classmates, but it is still difficult to judge whether the two schools can be completely separated."

Where did the "new name" of Hengshui No. 1 Middle School, Hengshui Taihua Middle School, come from. What about? Taihua Group participated in the completion and commissioning of Hengshui No. 1 Middle School. Tianyancha showed that the legal representative of Hengshui Taihua Middle School is Jin Yongsheng. At the same time, Jin Yongsheng served as the management of four companies, and behind three of them, there was the shadow of Taihua Group.

Tianyancha shows that Taihua Group has invested in Hebei Chenjing Real Estate Development Co., Ltd.; 100 Holdings Hengshui Shengxuan Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. and Dezhou Guoyun Taihua Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. The aforementioned companies all operate business related to the real estate industry.

After the name change, have Hengshui Taihua Middle School and Hengshui Middle School been completely cut off? As of February 15, the official websites of Hengshui No. 1 Middle School, Hengshui Middle School Experimental School, and Hengshui No. 1 Middle School International Department still have access to Hebei Hengshui Middle School, but Hengshui Middle School has no connection to other schools.