Chengdu No.7 High School

Chengdu No.7 High School (Chinese: 成都七中; pinyin: Chéngdu Qizhong) is located at Moziqiao (Linyin Campus) and Chengdu High-Tech Zone (Gaoxin Campus), Chengdu. Chengdu No.7 High School was established in 1905 and was formerly known as Chengdu County Middle School. It is one of the first key high schools designated by Ministry of Education of China. Considered to be the top high school in Sichuan Province, Chengdu No.7 High school is well known across China for its high quality education and excellent academic performance in science and mathematics.[1] It is one of the four "National Model High schools" in China. A large number of the students in Chengdu No.7 High School are admitted in the top universities in China and prestigious universities in the world every year.

Chengdu No.7 High School
成都市第七中学
School campus
Location
Chengdu
,
Sichuan

China
Information
TypePublic
EstablishedMochi Shuyuan, Chengdu County Middle School, 1906
School districtLinyin Road(Linyin Campus) Jiannan Avenue(Gaoxin Campus)
PrincipalHu Xia(Gaoxin Campus)
HeadmasterYi Guodong(易国栋)
Color(s)blue and white
Websitecdqz.net

History

A brief history of the school follows:[2]

Mochi Shuyuan, founded in the era of Song Dynasty of China.

1852 Mochi Shuyuan was split to be Mochi Shuyuan and Furong Shuyuan.

1905 Mochi Shuyuan and Furong Shuyuan was merged and evolved to establish Chengdu County Advanced Elementary School, which was a four-year school, and at the time there were five-year primary elementary schools.

1906 Chengdu County Middle School (four-year junior middle school)

1924 Chengdu County Middle School (three-year junior middle school)

1931 Chengdu County High School, three-year senior middle class was established.

1950 Chengdu County Middle School incorporated with Chengdu County Female High School which was established in 1930.

1952 Chengdu County Middle School renamed as Chengdu No.7 High School.

2014 Chengdu No.7 High School added sign "Chengdu High School".

Academic achievement

The achievement of students in the National College Entrance Examinations and Middle School Entrance Examinations have been the first place in Chengdu and Sichuan for many years. The college admission rate of the school's senior class has remained at around 99%. About 80% of the graduates enroll in key universities in the nation for higher education. The number of students who have won prizes in various contests held by the State, Sichuan Province, and Chengdu City remains high at around 400 each year. In the past five years, 32 students have participated in the finals of National Contests in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computing. Seven students have joined the national Olympic training teams in different disciplines. Among them, Zhang Yin and Wang Xiaochuan have won the gold medals in the 37th International Math and the 8th International Information Science Olympic Contests, respectively. Yang Jun won the championship of the American National Math Contest in 1992. Many students in Chengdu No.7 High School become the students in top universities in China and in the world every year.

The Wind Orchestra

Chengdu No.7 High School Wind Orchestra is the biggest and most historic (established in 1988) one in Sichuan, and it has gained a lot of honors. The orchestra plays an important role in the history of Chengdu no.7 high school. It was chosen to represent the school's music level, so its members have to be more intelligent and flexible than other teenage amateur music players.

In the year of 1989, the orchestra held a performance to commemorate Nie Er( composer of the PRC's National Anthem) in Kunming, which was its first display out of Sichuan. It was a huge success, then the orchestra went out once or more annually to give concerts or displays. With its fame increasing, the orchestra was invited to Australia in 2004. The orchestra left an excellent impression on Sydney's medias. This successful event represented the musical level of all Sichuan's middle school students. 2 years later, in July 2004,the band went to Vienna to join the 2004 World Cup for Band. Here they received a bronze cup. Then, the orchestra went to Singapore in 2010 to participate International music competition, and it won the silver prize . And in July 2011,the orchestra went to Switzerland to celebrate the music festival held in Jungfrau, and got a silver cup.

Besides those out-province achievements, the orchestra also earned reputation in Sichuan. It joins Sichuan students' musical competition every year and rarely fell into the second rank. Though it stopped activities during the 2003 "SARS" period and the 2009 H1N1 influenza period, it still attends the closing ceremony for artistic festival in CD no.7 high school.[3]

Swimming team

Chengdu No.7 High School has a leading swimming team. Founded in 2004 with only 2 athletes and coached by Mr. Pu Jun(蒲俊), the team now has 22 national-graded athletes, including several level-1 graded athletes. Between 2009 and 2011, the team achieved 3 consecutive winning of Sichuan swimming team championship.

Famous alumni

Foreign Exchange Program

Chengdu No.7 High School has an exchange program with Jenks Public Schools, IGS Bonn Beuel and Brockenhurst College since 2003.[12]

Campus culture

There are four major student's organisations in Chengdu No.7 High school: Youth League Committee (共青团委员会), Student union (学生会), Science and technology association (科协) and United clubs association (社联, UCA), which are administrating by students. Besides there're more than 30 other club in the school such as Model United Nations( elected to be the greatest club in Chengdu), Volleyball club, Zhaohua literature Club, New Babel Club, English debating club and EYE cosplay clubs etc. The variety of clubs and students organizations provide students with a more colourful study life and platform to recreate and communicate.

References
  1. A Brief Introduction to Chengdu No.7 Middle School - Stanford University
  2. cdqz.net (Chinese)
  3. yamaha data about the No.7 High school Wind Band (Chinese)
  4. Chen Jiayong biography
  5. Li Yinyuan biography Archived December 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science (Chinese)
  6. "Biography of Tang Mingshu,by CAE 中国工程院 (Chinese)". www.cae.cn. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  7. "Biography of Zhang Xingdong ,by CAE 中国工程院 (Chinese)". www.cae.cn. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  8. "NAE Website - Professor Xingdong Zhang". www.nae.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  9. "Dacheng Wang----Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences". english.ibp.cas.cn. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  10. "Brief Introduction of Sha Guohe 沙国河院士----中国科学院大连化学物理研究所 (Chinese)". www.dicp.ac.cn. Archived from the original on 2016-11-27. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  11. "Biography of Ye Shangfu, by CAE 中国工程院 (Chinese)". www.cae.cn. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  12. Schools, Jenks Public (13 September 2016). "We welcome Chengdu #7 Senior High Students, the 14th delegation from our sister school in China! @Jenks_Trojanspic.twitter.com/FQR6xkAcVN". @jenksps. Retrieved 2017-10-03.

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