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lanzhou, september 11 (china news service) (yang na) at the beginning of the new semester, fu mingfeng, a primary school graduate from yuanjiawan village, xiguoyuan town, qilihe district, lanzhou city, was promoted to the seventh grade of lanzhou no. 29 middle school. for him, who has lived with his grandmother for many years, the trouble of no one to help him with his homework while his parents work away from home has been solved by the various guarantees provided by this nine-year boarding school.

"after coming to no. 29 middle school, in addition to more spacious classrooms and professional music classes, we now have life teachers. we can ask the teachers for help anytime and anywhere if we encounter difficulties in our studies." fu mingfeng said that these changes have improved his grades in many subjects, including chinese, mathematics, and english.

in 2020, qilihe district invested 3.8 million yuan in special funds to expand lanzhou no. 29 middle school into a nine-year boarding school, integrating the schools in the seven natural villages in the back mountain of xiguoyuan town into no. 29 middle school. after the integration, in addition to the improvement of hardware teaching facilities such as playgrounds, classrooms, and dormitories, professional teachers were deployed to allow students from the original rural primary schools to receive professional music, sports, and art education, promoting their all-round development.

the picture shows students from lanzhou no. 29 middle school in class. (data picture) photo provided by the publicity department of the qilihe district committee of lanzhou

integrating urban and rural teaching resources is a microcosm of qilihe district's reform of group-based schooling. wang wei, party secretary and director of the qilihe district education bureau, said that since 2020, qilihe district has formulated and issued the "qilihe district education improvement three-year action plan (2020-2023)" and the "qilihe district compulsory education "expansion and increase of schools" implementation plan" based on the actual situation of the district with a clear urban-rural dual structure. the plan takes the adjustment of the layout of rural schools as the "first move" and the group-based schooling as the "ballast stone", focusing on improving the quality of schooling and expanding the construction of high-quality schools.

after several years of practice, the district has formed three new forms of "coordinated development of urban and rural integration, cluster development covering the entire region, and comprehensive development supported by bases", and the radiation of high-quality schools in the district has been continuously strengthened. the "qilihe path" has been explored to solve the problem of urban-rural dual structure by integrating resources and promote urban-rural integration by group-based schooling. group-based schooling in the entire region allows different schools to advance together at the same frequency, and the physical "walls" and spatial distances between schools are gradually broken down, and the collaborative, diversified, and open management model is iteratively upgraded.

wang wei said that three years ago, the rural education in qilihe district was scattered with scattered schools, teachers and management, with large investment and low quality, and students in the teaching points could not enjoy complete school education. the district formulated and issued the "qilihe district rural school layout adjustment plan" and fully launched the integration of rural education resources. 26 rural primary and secondary schools and teaching points were integrated into the central areas of towns with convenient transportation, 411 students were diverted nearby, 146 teachers were deployed, and 31 life teachers were transferred.

while investing special funds to expand lanzhou no. 29 middle school into a nine-year boarding school, the boarding facilities of huangyu middle school were improved, and two free "student apartments" were built in agan town and huangyu town. the government pays for free meals, daily necessities and school bus pick-up services for boarding students in the district, with the "four-heart" service standard of "studying attentively, eating attentively, living comfortably and parents assured", to fully guarantee students' needs in terms of learning, eating, dressing, living, transportation and safety.

resource integration has achieved the "double optimization" of resource allocation and teacher structure in rural schools, narrowed the spatial distance and difference coefficient of urban-rural integration, reserved conditions for the "integration" of urban and rural group schools, and provided experience that can be used as a reference for the development of urban-rural integration of lanzhou education.

on august 26, lanzhou qilihe primary school education group held its first class of the new semester. the qilihe district traffic police brigade police officers gave the students a traffic safety lecture. photo by yang na

on the premise of making good adjustments to the layout of rural schools, qilihe district will form 10 education groups in the form of "1+n+1" for the 75 primary and secondary schools in the district to achieve full coverage of group education.

each group has one core school as the main school and n urban and rural schools as branch schools, implementing in-depth integration of management, resources, teaching, and faculty, giving full play to the brand effect and demonstration and leading role of the group's main school, and stimulating the vitality of running schools within the group. on this basis, the group is encouraged to use the idle school property of rural schools to build 8 off-campus education practice bases, develop a series of off-campus practice course systems such as "red education +", "labor education +", and "science and technology education +", and expand and enrich the school education course structure.

by developing a "quality menu" for the main school and a "special menu" for branch schools, we summarize and promote the advantages and experience of the group's main school, provide curriculum distribution and teaching and research services, promote the characteristic development of the group's branch schools, and gradually improve the quality of education.

on september 10, wujiayuan primary school in qilihe district, lanzhou city, held a club activity. the picture shows the school's characteristic chinese drum club performance. photo by yang na

relying on the group's "big teaching and research" platform, the "three in the classroom" teaching model of "learning in the classroom, practicing in the classroom, and growing in the classroom" is fully implemented in 10 group schools, optimizing homework design, strengthening face-to-face review, face-to-face correction and face-to-face assistance, constantly exploring and changing evaluation methods, improving teachers' teaching methods, and creating efficient classrooms. (end)