Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School
39°55′12″N 116°26′29″E / 39.92000°N 116.44139°E
Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School | |
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38 Chaoyangmenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District | |
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Type | Public |
Motto | Honesty, Perseverance, Diligence and Innovation |
Established | 1921 |
Headmaster | Zhang Deqing (张德庆) |
Staff | 25 |
Faculty | 191 |
Number of students | 2400< |
Website | Official website |
Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School (simplified Chinese:
History
1921–1945: Chongzhen School for Girls
Chen Jing Lun High School’s institutional predecessor was the Chongzhen School (
1945–1976: No. 4 High School for Girls
After the end of World War II, the Chongzhen School was converted into a public school and renamed the Beiping No. 4 School for Girls on November 8, 1945.[3] In 1947, a high school section was added.[3] In March 1949, after the Chinese Communists captured the city and renamed it Beijing, the school became the Beijing No. 4 High School for Girls and remained an all girls' school.[3] The school's party secretary and then principal was Pan Ji, a student of Shimizu Yasuzō's at Chongzhen who joined the Chinese Communist revolution.[3] In 1954, the Beijing Education Bureau designated the school a key point school of the city.[3] The school was designated a friendship school of the Albanian Embassy in Beijing. Model worker Wu Yunduo, also known as "the Pavel Korchagin of China" visited the school and a model "Pavel class" was designated at the school.[4][5]
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution brought turmoil to the school as students and teachers, under the encouragement of Chairman Mao Zedong, rebelled against school authorities and formed Red Guard groups. In August 1966, two teachers were beaten to death by Red Guards.[6] Another instructor committed suicide.[6] Principal Pan Ji was purged and nearly beaten to death.[6] A group of radical female Red Guard students from the school were notorious for shaving their heads and wielding leather belts.[6]
1976–1991: Chaoyang High School
At the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, the Beijing Female No.4 High School was renamed Chaoyang High School and converted into a coeducational institution.[7]
1991–present: Chen Jing Lun High School
Hong Kong entrepreneur Chen Jinglun donated RMB 20 million to Chaoyang High School in 1991 for the renovation of the old campus. Thereafter the school was renamed Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School by the Beijing municipal government.[7] In July 2011, the Chen Jing Lun School and the Mount Lawley Senior High School became partners in the Australia-China BRIDGE School Partnerships Project.[8] In April 2013, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited the Chen Jing Lun High School.[8]
Campus
The campus covers around 40,000 square metres (430,000 sq ft) with about 20% of the main campus area covered with grass and trees such as gingko, apricot and the Chinese pagoda tree.
With its Spanish style architecture, the school contains a laboratory building, an auditorium, a dormitory and four teaching buildings, running from A1 to A4.[9]
The playground consists of an official sized football pitch, several basketball courts and a regularly sized 400m running track. There is also an Olympic sized swimming pool in the auditorium building. However, the playground and the track are dilapidated and require a major overhaul.[citation needed]
Facilities
Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School's facilities include:[10]
- Astronomy dome with telescope.
- Indoor swimming pool.
- Library with more than nine million books.
- 800-metre (2,600 ft) indoor basketball court.
- Lecture hall with capacity for 200.
- Auditorium with capacity for 2,000.
- School cafeteria with capacity for 1,000.
- Multi-function reading room.
- 400-metre (1,300 ft) running track.
- Two computer science classrooms, each equipped with 40 PCs.
- Nine biology, chemistry and physics laboratories.
- 46 classrooms, each with a PC and projector, all with Internet access
Related schools
In June 1998, many of the best key high schools in Beijing had their junior (grades 7-9) and senior (grades 10-12) divisions separated, resulting two independent entities. The high school division has continued to use the original school name and campus, and the junior divisions were renamed the Branch Schools of the original schools and were often relocated to satellite campuses. The junior high school division of Chen Jing Lun was separated from the high school division that year, becoming the Branch of Chen Jinglun Middle School (陈经纶
Alumni
- Lang Ping (
朗 平 ) (Jenny Lang), former Chinese volleyball player and former head coach of the Chinese and U.S. women's national volleyball teams. - Li Huifen (
李 慧 芬) Vice-chairman of China Administration of Quality (CAQ,中国 质量管理 协会)
See also
References
- ^ "Brief Biography of Yasuzo Shimizu". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ a b c d e (Chinese) [1] 2011-10-02
- ^ a b c d e (Chinese) "
女 四中时期教师名录" 2011-10-02 - ^ (Chinese) "吴云铎与
潘 基 校 长合影 " 2011-10-02 - ^ (Chinese) "
女 四中保尔班命名合影 " 2011-10-02 - ^ a b c d (Chinese) "
北京 第 四 女子 中学 " Chinese Holocaust Memorial Accessed 2013-09-11 - ^ a b history of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School: http://www.bjcjl.net/index_eg.htm
- ^ a b “Prime Minister visits Australia-China BRIDGE school in China” 2013-04-01
- ^ Campus architecture of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School: http://www.bjcjl.net/eg/index_Campus%20Enviroment.htm
- ^ facilities of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School
- ^ [2] Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine.