Teacher picks up kids by boat for 28 years

3 weeks, 5 days ago

E. China county boosts distinctive-feature education to cultivate talents

By Han Jingyan | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-12-16 17:30 Students play games at recess at a primary school in Congjiang county, Guizhou province, on Sept 5. "I have felt the warmth of the school's extended family," said Xing, noting the town's goal of "cultivating happy students, empowering happy teachers, and building happy families" has sowed good results, amid its bid …

Education School Happy Town Xing

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Raising their game

China Daily

Students and teachers of Nanlingxiang central elementary school in Lancang Lahu autonomous county, Yunnan province, pose for photos and interact with Chinese basketball star Zhao Jiwei. During the trip, they visited Puma China's headquarters, elementary schools and the sports bureau in the city's Huangpu district to discuss and learn about the latest methods of designing sports classes. He pointed out …

School Puma

4 months ago

Population structure should drive education reform

China Daily

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY The changes in the population structure because of a declining birth rate, population aging and regional demographic changes will have a profound impact on educational resources in the new era. While the enrollment rate in newly established nursery classes for children below 3 years in some major cities has been rising, schools in remote areas which lack …

Education China Children Population Resources Migrant Workers Regions

4 months ago

Population structure should drive education reform

China Daily

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY The changes in the population structure because of a declining birth rate, population aging and regional demographic changes will have a profound impact on educational resources in the new era. While the enrollment rate in newly established nursery classes for children below 3 years in some major cities has been rising, schools in remote areas which lack …

Education China Children Population Resources Migrant Workers Regions

4 months ago

Beijing educators lend expertise to Xizang schools

China Daily

A view of the Lhasa-Beijing Experimental Middle School in Lhasa, capital of Xizang autonomous region. The first group of 50 teachers was sent to the Lhasa-Beijing Experimental Middle School as part of a group-style educational support system for Xizang. Huang Xin, from the Attached Middle School to the Central Academy of Art & Design in Dongcheng district, Beijing, teaches high …

Region Experimental Middle Beijing Lhasa Autonomous Xizang Schools

4 months ago

Families move to Thailand seeking an alternative to China's pressure-cooker schools, details here

Hindustan Times

The competition started in second grade for DJ Wang's son. Jenson Zhang, who runs an education consultancy, Vision Education, for Chinese parents looking to move to Southeast Asia, said many middle-class families choose Thailand because schools are cheaper than private schools in cities like Beijing and Shanghai. “Southeast Asia, it's within reach, the visa is convenient and the overall environment, …

Education China Parents School Schools Chinese Thailand

4 months ago

Seeking an alternative to China’s pressure-cooker schools, families move to Thailand

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ___ Jenson Zhang, who runs …

Education China Parents School Chinese Thailand Wang

4 months, 1 week ago

Former fishermen in Hubei help protect important water source

China Daily

Wang Zhaobing helps clear the bank of the Hanjiang River. Living beside the Danjiangkou Reservoir, a vital water source in China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Wang's life revolved around the water. "At that time, the government introduced policies to clean up aquaculture cages to protect the aquatic ecosystem," Wang said. "Many fishermen became volunteers, joining local water conservation efforts and …

China Water Fishing Aquaculture Wang Villagers Protect

6 months ago

Zhuhai teacher goes extra mile for Xizang students

China Daily

Chen Geng stands with some of his Tibetan students at Zhuhai No 4 Middle School in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. "The children left their parents in Xizang and came to study in Zhuhai, and it was inevitable they would not adapt quickly to the new environment and climate," Chen said. "The longer I get along with them, the more I regard …

China Children Students School Student Tibetan Chen

6 months ago

Zhuhai teacher goes extra mile for Xizang students

China Daily

Chen Geng stands with some of his Tibetan students at Zhuhai No 4 Middle School in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. "The children left their parents in Xizang and came to study in Zhuhai, and it was inevitable they would not adapt quickly to the new environment and climate," Chen said. "The longer I get along with them, the more I regard …

China Students Chen Xizang Guangdong Teacher His Students

7 months ago

Kindergarten 'chefs' trigger practical education debate

China Daily

Children roast ears of wheat at Xuhai Road Kindergarten in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, on May 23. ZHAO JIULONG/XINHUA NANJING — In the city of Xuzhou, located amid the verdant landscapes of East China's Jiangsu province, Xuhai Road Kindergarten produces an unconventional symphony featuring the rhythmic chopping of vegetables, the comforting sizzle of baking buns, and the gentle grind of the …

Education Children Zhang Kindergarten Practical Education Xuhai Road Kindergarten

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Convenient life more tangible in Guiyang and Gui'an

China Daily

As the urban renovation of Guiyang City and Gui'an New Area progresses, a series of initiatives benefiting people's livelihoods and aligning with their interests have been implemented. People exercise on the basketball court in Zhujiangwanpan Residential Community. The basketball court of the Zhujiangwanpan Residential Community is a supporting project of the Qianjiang living circle in the Guiyang Economic and Technological …

Community Court Guiyang Bailuzhou Kindergarten Zhujiangwanpan Residential

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Shandong kindergartens see future as eldercare centers

China Daily

Facing a continuous decline in the number of children attending kindergartens, a nursery in Jining, Shandong province, has taken the bold step of transforming its services to cater to the elderly. "With another wave of children leaving kindergartens for primary schools in August, our in-house child count is expected to drop to around 1,000," Yu said. "It received great support …

Children Care Centers Nurseries

1 year ago

Innovation, cooperation aid education in Fujian

China Daily

By Ma Chenguang | China Daily | Updated: 2024-01-02 As chief of the education bureau in Nanping's Yanping district, in the north of Fujian province, Zhang Zhixiong said his paramount task is ensuring that children can enjoy better education. "We want to innovate our educational philosophy and management mode by building a nine-year school in Yanping — the Kaiyuan Experimental …

Education School High Aid District Xiamen Fujian

1 year, 2 months ago

China shows off a Tibetan boarding school that’s part of a system some see as forced assimilation

Associated Press

SHANGRI-LA TOWN, China — First-grade students, hands folded on their desks, watch a teacher write a brush-like stroke on a blackboard in their Tibetan alphabet. Her group issued a report in late 2021 that used Chinese government documents and other research to estimate at least 800,000 Tibetan children, or nearly 80% of the school-age population, were in such boarding schools. …

China Children Students School Schools Tibetan Forced Assimilation

1 year, 3 months ago

School pairing benefits relocated workers

China Daily

Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School has played an important role in creating tangible benefits for workers who have transferred to Xiong'an New Area, Hebei province, from Beijing. Most of the students are children of employees at State-owned enterprises and their subsidiaries who have been relocated from Beijing to the new area, according to Hua Guohui, assistant to the school's president. …

School Beijing Area Jiang

1 year, 3 months ago

New school creates benefits for transferred personnel

China Daily

A dance instructor teaches a student to practice dancing moves in Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School in Xiong'an New Area, Hebei province. Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School, which is supported by a Beijing-based counterpart in management and education, has played an important role in creating tangible benefits for personnel transferred to Xiong'an New Area, Hebei province. Most of the students …

School Beijing Hua

1 year, 3 months ago

Across China: Teachers delivering hope to children in China's landlocked mountains

China Daily

Huang Yongyong and Huang Xiubi, husband and wife, have been working in Nawang Primary School in Dongling township, Debao county of Guangxi, for 19 years and 30 years, respectively, as teachers, cooks, and caretakers. NANNING -- When a Xinhua reporter first met Yu Qigui a decade ago, the village primary school teacher was seen trudging a muddy mountain path carrying …

China Kids Teachers Guangxi Primary Xinhua Huang

1 year, 4 months ago

100,000 'silver teachers' to be hired in next three years

China Daily

China plans to hire 100,000 retired teachers in the next three years to teach in schools and universities, according to a new plan. The "silver teacher plan", launched in 2018, has already seen more than 20,000 retired teachers hired to teach in primary and secondary schools and universities in western and less developed regions. The new plan, issued by the …

Education School Teachers High Plan Chinese Kashgar

1 year, 6 months ago

Rural Primary School Teacher Committed to Bringing Love and Warmth to Children in Need

China Daily

Yan Wenhui, a rural primary school teacher and former recipient of the Spring Bud project from Jinggangshan - the cradle of the Chinese revolution and a mountainous city in East China's Jiangxi province, poses for a group photo with her students. Grow up with the love and warmth of the Spring Bud project Yan said that her life gradually returned …

Love School Rural Yan Middle School Primary Her Mother

1 year, 7 months ago

Elderly cared for by Shandong canteen

China Daily

At noon on Wednesday, some elderly people gathered in a canteen for lunch at Nanliuzhuang village of Zhongzhuang town in Yiyuan county of Zibo, Shandong province. In the county's other village--Jijiayu village of Lucun town -- there is also such a canteen where more than 100 elderly people have lunch every day. Elderly people have lunch in a canteen at …

Elderly County Village Shandong Lunch Yiyuan County

1 year, 7 months ago

Elderly cared for by Shandong canteen

China Daily

At noon on Wednesday, some elderly people gathered in a canteen for lunch at Nanliuzhuang village of Zhongzhuang town in Yiyuan county of Zibo, Shandong province. In the county's other village--Jijiayu village of Lucun town -- there is also such a canteen where more than 100 elderly people have lunch every day. Elderly people have lunch in a canteen at …

Elderly County Village Shandong Lunch Yiyuan County

1 year, 8 months ago

One sign of South Korea’s population crisis: Rural elementary schools are running out of children

LA Times

Her first few months as the new principal of Dochang Elementary had been one long lesson in problems of scarcity, and on a recent Tuesday, Lee Eun-sook was working at several of them. “A lot of people said that there was nothing I could do, to just wait out the next six months and take a more comfortable posting at …

Children Population Students School Rural South Korea Rural Areas

1 year, 9 months ago

Greater funding results in makeover

China Daily

Unprecedented investment in schools and teachers has helped Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, make a major change in the past decade, becoming famous for its education system, said Zhu Qicai, head of the county's bureau of education and sports. In 2019, the school achieved outstanding performances in the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, with 100 percent of its first batch …

Students School Schools County Universities Zhu Zhenxiong

1 year, 9 months ago

School sees graduate numbers soar

China Daily

Students compete in a race on campus last year. CHEN YABO/FOR CHINA DAILY Major makeover He Qibing, the vice-principal, said the school has undergone a major makeover in the past 10 years. When he first started working there a decade ago, the school had just a single three-story teaching building, a one-story office block and a two-story dormitory for the …

Middle School Soar Student

2 years ago

Educator recounts years of struggle

China Daily

Zhang Guimei, principal of Huaping High School for Girls, a free public high school, in Huaping county, Lijiang, Yunnan province, checks students in class. Recalling 2022, Zhang Guimei, principal of Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping county, Yunnan province, has mixed emotions. "In the past year, I've had joys and also worry," Zhang, 65, wrote in a signed …

China School Girls Party High Zhang Past

2 years, 1 month ago

A young teacher reaches children with disabilities

China Daily

A photo shows Chen Yanhui, a teacher in Chaling county of Zhuzhou, Hunan province, teaching a disabled child at his home. Chen Yanhui in Chaling county of Zhuzhou, Hunan province, has been teaching disabled children at their homes during her spare time over the last six years. At that time, Chen taught six children with serious cerebral palsy. In recent …

Children Chen

2 years, 1 month ago

A young teacher reaches children with disabilities

China Daily

A photo shows Chen Yanhui, a teacher in Chaling county of Zhuzhou, Hunan province, teaching a disabled child at his home. Chen Yanhui in Chaling county of Zhuzhou, Hunan province, has been teaching disabled children at their homes during her spare time over the last six years. At that time, Chen taught six children with serious cerebral palsy. In recent …

Children Chen

2 years, 2 months ago

A teacher's moving story

China Daily

Cheng Feng gives a class at Siwanghu Primary School. Dedicated educator is on a mission to rejuvenate rural education in a remote mountainous community and provide the best education to its children, one school at a time, Yang Feiyue reports. During the just past summer vacation, Cheng didn't take time off but paid home visits to rural students of the …

Cheng

2 years, 2 months ago

A teacher's moving story

China Daily

Cheng Feng gives a class at Siwanghu Primary School. Dedicated educator is on a mission to rejuvenate rural education in a remote mountainous community and provide the best education to its children, one school at a time, Yang Feiyue reports. During the just past summer vacation, Cheng didn't take time off but paid home visits to rural students of the …

Rural Education Cheng

2 years, 2 months ago

A teacher's moving story

China Daily

Cheng tutors a pupil at Beitang Primary School. Cheng voluntarily chose to move to the school last year after she learned it was in need of faculty members. She has since helped to improve the teaching facilities and infrastructure, and went out of her way to reach children scattered around the surrounding rural area and persuade them to come to …

School Cheng

2 years, 2 months ago

A teacher's moving story

China Daily

The teacher and her colleagues at a meeting at Liling Primary School. Cheng also dug into her own pocket to buy audiovisual equipment, printers and computers and have campus radio installed in every classroom, in order to give students a better learning experience. "I can't remember how much money she spent before and after, but she spent her salary buying …

Students Cheng Rural School Poyang Teachers Took

2 years, 7 months ago

Meet Mum Xiaohua

China Daily

Xie Xiaohua teaches children to pronounce during a class at Yiyuan County Special Education School in Zibo, Shandong province, on May 7. 48-year-old teacher has spent 26 years helping children grow up at special education school Xie Xiaohua, who has been working as a special education teacher for the past 26 years, has won the heart of hundreds of children …

Education Special Xiaohua Xie

2 years, 7 months ago

Teacher in a class of her own

China Daily

Ren Jilan talks about measures to contain COVID-19 with Grade 3 students at Fuluping Primary School in Dongli town, Yiyuan county, Shandong province. For pupils at a village school in Yiyuan county, Shandong province, Ren Jilan has not only been teaching them but also showing them how to face life with a positive attitude, especially when things just don't seem …

Ren Yiyuan County

2 years, 7 months ago

Teacher in a class of her own

China Daily

Ren Jilan talks about measures to contain COVID-19 with Grade 3 students at Fuluping Primary School in Dongli town, Yiyuan county, Shandong province. For pupils at a village school in Yiyuan county, Shandong province, Ren Jilan has not only been teaching them but also showing them how to face life with a positive attitude, especially when things just don't seem …

Ren Yiyuan County County Village

2 years, 7 months ago

Teacher in a class of her own

China Daily

Ren Jilan talks about measures to contain COVID-19 with Grade 3 students at Fuluping Primary School in Dongli town, Yiyuan county, Shandong province. For pupils at a village school in Yiyuan county, Shandong province, Ren Jilan has not only been teaching them but also showing them how to face life with a positive attitude, especially when things just don't seem …

School Work Mother County China Daily Village My Mother

2 years, 7 months ago

Teacher in a class of her own

China Daily

Ren Jilan talks about measures to contain COVID-19 with Grade 3 students at Fuluping Primary School in Dongli town, Yiyuan county, Shandong province. For pupils at a village school in Yiyuan county, Shandong province, Ren Jilan has not only been teaching them but also showing them how to face life with a positive attitude, especially when things just don't seem …

School Work Mother County China Daily Village My Mother

2 years, 8 months ago

Dedicated couple help educate a generation

China Daily

By ZOU SHUO in Beijing and YANG JUN in Guiyang | english.guiyang.gov.cn| Updated: 2022-04-20 Pan Zhongyong visits a student's home in Songbai village, Zhenyuan county, Guizhou province, on Sept 7. JIANG CHUNJIAN/FOR CHINA DAILY Pan Zhongyong is the only teacher at the Pingyu education center in the small rural village of Songbai in Guizhou province, and his wife Zhu Muqun …

Education Center Pan His Father Teacher School Students Pingyu

2 years, 9 months ago

Nansha School for HK Children starts global hiring campaign

China Daily

Updated: 2022-03-25 chinadaily.com.cn The Nansha School for Hong Kong Children is hiring globally for these positions: subject director, subject teacher, foreign teacher, and middle school vice-principal. The school is located in the Hong Kong-style international community of Dongchong town in Guangzhou's Nansha district, just 1.7 kilometers away from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The school's educational network connects …

School Nansha School

2 years, 9 months ago

Zhejiang primary schools explore intercity cooperation

China Daily

chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2022-03-21 An English lesson conducted by Shaoxing's Keqiao Primary School is livestreamed to Hengtai Primary School in Jiangshan county-level city, Quzhou on March 18. The Keqiao Primary School in Shaoxing and Hengtai Primary School in Quzhou teamed up on March 18 to share education resources and integrate regional education development in Zhejiang province. The initiative saw Keqiao Primary …

English School Primary Zhejiang Hengtai Primary School Keqiao Primary School

2 years, 10 months ago

Students find life easier this winter break

China Daily

Non-academic training Li Yuan, the mother of a primary school student in Beijing's Dongcheng district, said her daughter's school has organized free day-care activities for its students, including interest groups and sports. Li said her daughter prefers going to school to attend such activities, rather than staying at home for the winter vacation. Wang Zining, who is in the fifth …

School Beijing Her Daughter

2 years, 11 months ago

Lucky primary students get their skates on

China Daily

Students receive ice hockey training at the Jilong Road Primary School in Qingdao, Shandong province. Many young people in Qingdao have become zealous winter sports fans thanks to efforts made by the city's educators to boost winter sports and Olympic culture in schools in recent years. Teachers also encourage students to draw pictures or write stories about winter sports and …

Winter Students School Hockey Sun Schools Olympic Games

2 years, 11 months ago

Dongying creates better after-school activities for rural students

China Daily

"One, two, three, four; two, two, three, four.Hook your feet and lay your hands flat." In an activity room of the Children's Palace, an after-school center in Longju town, Dongying district, 12 children listen to Song Tian, a volunteer teacher, explaining the key aspects of Chinese dance movements on weekends. The place Zhao mentioned is a pilot site of the …

Dance Activities Children Students Rural Palace Chinese

3 years ago

A valuable lesson for life

China Daily

Zhi Yueying, who is devoted to teaching in village schools in the remote mountains of Yichun, Jiangxi province, gives a class. When Zhi Yueying, then 19, went to the remote Niyang village in Yichun city, Jiangxi province, to work as a village teacher in 1980, villagers were doubtful if she was going to stay long. The blackboard, door and windows …

China Jiangxi Zhi Village Teacher

3 years ago

Missing teaching and the kids in school

China Daily

Once upon a recent memory, I worked as an English teacher in a prekindergarten school northwest of the capital. I was teaching kids songs on YouTube, making art projects on weekends, carrying crying toddlers in my arms, and yes, wiping some of them in toilet runs. The children learned math, music, arts, science, Chinese and English, as well as the …

Children Kids Work Chinese Sing Teacher Learned

3 years, 1 month ago

Jining students benefit from new education policy

China Daily

Students learn dancing at an after-school activity in Jiaxiang county, Jining, Shandong province. Primary and junior high school students in Jiaxiang county, Jining have benefited from the nation's recently implemented "double reduction" policy which aims to relieve students of the burden of excessive homework and reduce the need for after-school tutoring. "My dream is to play beautiful melodies," said a …

Students School Jiaxiang County Jining

3 years, 5 months ago

Music educator with major score to settle

China Daily

Zong reflects on a bridge over the Haihe River in Tianjin. Zhao Qian, president of Cathay Future Group, a big private art education group in China, says Zong is leading a "revolution" in the field. "Compared with performance technique, Zong emphasizes the essence of art, emotional power, creative imagination and aesthetic appreciation-these are what we are going to use to …

Middle School Zong

3 years, 6 months ago

Changshan teacher renowned for kindness and boiled eggs

China Daily

chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2021-06-15 Zhang Liming hands out eggs to his students in the classroom. The career of Zhang Liming, a 60-year-old math teacher at Zigang High School in Changshan county, Zhejiang province, has long been a testament to the ancient Chinese maxim, "Don't cease to do good things no matter how seemingly insignificant they are". Then he started using an …

Students Zhang Liming Boiled Eggs Eggs Zhang

3 years, 7 months ago

92-year-old man sells home to support new Ninghai school

China Daily

Chen Shaozong, aged 92, donates more than 2.2 million yuan from the sale of his ancestral home to Taoyuan No 2 Middle School in Ningbo's Ninghai county on May 31. Chen Shaozong, aged 92, recently donated more than 2.2 million yuan from the sale of his ancestral home to Taoyuan No 2 Middle School in Ningbo's Ninghai county. Born in …

Chen Yuan Ningbo Ninghai Taoyuan

Teacher picks up kids by boat for 28 years

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