School History of Heping Middle School

A review of the 90-year development history of Heping Middle School

Heping Middle School was founded in the autumn of 1919. It is the oldest key middle school in our county with a glorious tradition and excellent school spirit. Over the past ninety years, with the care and help of the county party committee, county government and superior authorities, and with the trust and support from all walks of life, as a leader in peace education, Heping Middle School has always adhered to the spirit of forge ahead, seizing opportunities, and constantly improving. With the awareness of serving the elders of the county, tens of thousands of outstanding peace students have been sent to various colleges and universities, fulfilling the college dream of countless children in mountainous areas.

1. Turbulent years, ups and downs

1. In 1919, on the eve of the May 4th Movement, He Yiluan, the governor of Heping County, proposed the establishment of a county middle school and formed a school board of directors. Meeting, the old examination shed located at Xiaodongmen of the county was selected as the school site. In September, 80 new students were admitted and classes began, with a four-year academic system. The first principal was Luo Shuyou, a native of Bagong and Dongshui in the former Qing Dynasty, who was famous for establishing Siyue High School and advocating new learning. During his eight years in office, Hezhong grew from scratch and gradually expanded, laying a certain foundation for future development.

2. After the May 30th Movement in 1925, teachers and students of the school held strikes and anti-imperialist demonstrations, and launched a boycott of British and Japanese goods, so that the masses received a profound patriotic education. .

3. In 1926, driven by the revolutionary situation, alumni such as Bu Hensheng, Huang Jingbai, and Zhang Jueqing who had left school in the early years secretly established the "New Peace Youth League" in order to mobilize the majority of young people in the county to join the revolution. , compiled and printed progressive publications, promoted the revolution, and promoted the local anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle.

4. In 1931, the Japanese invaders caused the "September 18th" incident. The teachers and students of the school were inspired by patriotic indignation and held strikes and demonstrations. The Anti-Japanese War broke out in Songhu on January 28 the following year. In addition to participating in demonstrations, teachers and students of the school also mobilized county offices and businesses to raise money and materials to express condolences to the soldiers at the front and the martyrs of the county's anti-Japanese army.

5. In 1937, the all-out Anti-Japanese War broke out, and Hezhong became an important base for students in the county to carry out anti-Japanese and national salvation activities. In the autumn and winter of that year, a group of progressive teachers and students of the school actively participated in anti-Japanese and national salvation activities under the guidance of alumni Huang Jingbai, Xu Zicai, Huang Zhiyou, Zeng Yuan and others. They used their spare time to participate in publishing publications, mobilized young clerks, workers, and farmers to study culture and politics, write anti-Japanese slogans, publish anti-Japanese wall newspapers, hold street speeches, and promote the idea of ??uniting to resist Japan, which greatly inspired the patriotic enthusiasm of the county people. On November 29, 1938, Japanese planes began bombing Heping County, and Hezhong moved to Dam Shuibei Village.

6. In 1938, the county began to establish a Communist Party organization. According to the instructions of the Dongjiang Special Committee at that time, we first actively developed party members among young students. Heping Middle School naturally became the first student movement center in the county under the leadership of the Communist Party. In November of that year, the Central Committee and the Central Branch were established. In less than a year since then, 33 teachers and students of Hezhong Middle School have joined the Communist Party.

7. In the winter of 1939, the school began to prepare for the establishment of a high school. The school has grown to 15 teaching classes. Since then, Heping County Middle School has become a large-scale complete middle school in northeastern Guangdong.

8. Shortly after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang reactionaries launched a large-scale civil war. The underground party in peace continued to fight using a combination of covert and open methods in accordance with instructions from superiors. In the spring of 1947, Huang Bailian, a member of the Communist Party of China, was ordered to return to his alma mater and middle school in the name of resuming school, and formed a party branch. Under the close supervision of Kuomintang agents, he risked his life to unite progressive students, tactfully collected intelligence for the party, distributed leaflets, and did a lot of work to welcome the liberation of Heping County.

2. After many twists and turns, several devastations

1. In May 1949, Heping County was liberated; in August of the same year, Luo Baoxuan, member of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, took over the Heping County on behalf of the County Party Committee and County Government. He also serves as principal. In 1950, "Heping County High School" was renamed "Heping No. 1 Middle School".

2. From 1952 to 1955, due to the influence of the "thought reform movement", school work suffered some losses. Teachers who were considered to have "major problems" were purged and arrested. , people were panicked for a while, and teaching work was seriously affected.

3. From 1954 to 1956, due to the gradual correction of the deviation of the work from the right track of teaching, the school's work turned to be teaching-centered, the normal teaching order was restored, and the teaching quality was significantly improved, and the results were very good. Remarkable. In 1956, 42 students graduated from high school and 39 were admitted to college, which was the highest record in the history of Hezhong. The number of students in the school increased sharply from 698 to 1,084. In June 1960, Hezhong was awarded the honorable title of "Advanced Unit in the National Cultural and Educational System" for its outstanding school performance. Principal Liang Xinxi went to Beijing to attend the National Meeting of Heroes in the Cultural and Educational System. Afterwards, Hezhong was identified as a key middle school in Guangdong Province.

4. Beginning in 1957, for about 20 years, due to the influence of the national climate, the school, like many schools across the country, went through a tortuous period under the impact of political movements one after another. process. The school has been relocated and renamed several times, and teaching work has suffered unprecedented damage. During the ten years of catastrophe, Hezhong was regarded as a "bourgeois dye vat" and a "black model of revisionist education" and was severely damaged. School buildings were occupied, equipment and facilities were destroyed, and most leaders and teachers were attacked and persecuted. The quality of education and teaching suffered. Severe decline.

5. In May 1960, "Heping County No. 1 Middle School" was renamed "Lianping County Dongshan Junior High School". In September 1962, "Lianping County Dongshan Junior High School" was renamed "Heping Middle School"

3. Continuously strive for self-improvement and move forward

1. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Since then, with the full-scale work of bringing order to the education front, He Middle School has finally ushered in a bright spring. In 1978, it was restored to the county key middle school and moved back to the original location of the North Building. The enthusiasm of teachers and students was greatly mobilized, and the teaching and learning styles improved rapidly. In 1979, the college entrance examination scores of recent high school graduates ranked among the top in the Huiyang area, and they were commended by the prefectural and county leadership agencies.

2. Since the 1980s, Hezhong has entered a new glorious period driven by the tide of reform and opening up. The school has carried out a series of teaching reforms and strictly focused on school spirit and study style. As a result, the school has a new look and comprehensive improvement in teaching quality. In 1985, it was rated as an advanced collective in the general education system of Guangdong Province. In 1995, it was rated as the first batch of municipal first-level schools in Heyuan City. It has been awarded the title of "Green School of Guangdong Province", "Heyuan City Mass Sports Advanced Unit", "Guangdong Province First-Class School", "Guangdong Province General High School Teaching Level Excellent School" and other dozens of honorary titles, have been rated as county advanced units for more than ten consecutive years, and have also been identified as Guangdong Provincial Modern Educational Technology Experimental School, South China Normal University Educational Practice Research Base. In recent years, the school's college entrance examination scores have steadily increased year after year. In 2005, 315 people were admitted to the undergraduate program, and the undergraduate admission rate was nearly 80%; in 2006 and 2007, the college entrance examination admission rate was above 80%; in 2008, when the quality of students declined seriously compared with previous years, , College entrance examination results are still rising against the trend, with 300 undergraduate students, 90 more than the county's quota; in the past three years, students have participated in various subject competitions at all levels, and won more than 180 national, provincial and municipal commendations and awards; The crime rate has always been zero.

3. 90 years of continuous construction have gradually improved the hardware facilities in Hezhong. In the winter of 2007, the county requisitioned more than 30,000 square meters of land in Beilougang for the school, bringing the school's area to more than 100,000 square meters. The main buildings on the campus include: 3 teaching buildings, 11 teacher dormitories, 5 student dormitories, 1 administrative teaching and research building, 1 comprehensive building, 1 multimedia ladder classroom building, 1 science building, and one The first dining hall for students with thousands of people dining together, and the second dining hall that can accommodate 3,000 people at the same time are nearing completion. Each building is connected to a computer network built according to digital standards. The garden-like buildings are nestled in the Among the green trees and flowers, the elegant environment shows a rich artistic and cultural atmosphere.

Flag-raising square, fountain square, standard 400-meter circular track sports ground, wind and rain playground, basketball court, badminton court, table tennis court, multimedia classroom, standard physical and chemical laboratory, standard computer room, standard language room, courseware production room, music room , dance studio, art room, library (with a collection of 90,000 books), reading room, staff club, school history exhibition room, health room, psychological counseling room and other functional rooms. Whether it is the morning when the sun is rising or the evening when the sun is setting, diligent students can be seen everywhere under the elegant mushroom pavilion, beside the vigorous ancient trees, and in the lingering green lawns.

IV. New opportunities, new leaps

1. In the fall of 2004, Hezhong spun off the junior high school and restructured it into a senior middle school. In 2006, it was rated as "Guangdong Province First-Class Middle School" School", in December 2008, it was recognized as "Excellent School in Guangdong Province's General High School Teaching Level" by the Education Supervision Office of the People's Government of Guangdong Province. There are currently 45 teaching classes with nearly 3,000 teachers, students and employees.

2. In 2007, the county party committee and government decided that Heping Middle School would expand its enrollment to 10 classes every year for three consecutive years, and allocate wasteland in the Beilou Gang area of ??the county to Hezhong. Riding on the spring breeze of popularizing high school education, the school acquired more than 30,000 square meters of land this year, planned from a high starting point, and constructed to high standards. A new teaching building, a student dining hall, and four student apartments were built.

3. The county party committee and county government and the city and county education bureaus actively support the school’s new curriculum reform. In the past three years alone, nearly 10 million yuan has been invested to improve the school’s teaching supporting equipment and facilities, realizing the school’s Modernization of teaching material conditions. At present, the school's education and teaching facilities are well-equipped: there is a campus network, a sufficient number of multimedia teaching platforms, and teachers' offices are all equipped with office computers. Modern information technology is widely used, and the digital campus construction has achieved remarkable results: there are more than 30 subject teaching function rooms and physics, chemistry and biology inquiry laboratories, 3 high-standard computer rooms, more than 200 computers, and 1 electronic reading room.

4. In 2009, the county party committee and government decided to invest more than 10 million yuan to build a new teaching building and a student dormitory, flatten a large playground in Beilou Gang, and build a new north gate of the school. After 2010, the school will maintain a scale of 60 teaching classes, with more than 4,000 teachers and students.

The long road to Xiongguan is really like iron, but now we are crossing it from the beginning. Ninety long years, ninety years in a blink of an eye. Looking back on yesterday, we have mixed feelings and feel gratified; looking forward to the future, we are full of expectations and dare not slack off. Standing at a new historical starting point, Hezhong people will uphold the fine traditions, pass on the fire from generation to generation, insist on advancing with the times, develop scientifically, and strive to write a new chapter for the establishment of a national-level exemplary ordinary high school.