北京市东城区重点中学东直门中学

　　Dong Zhimen is a combined middle school and high school. It is located on No. 2 Bei Shuncheng Street, the northeast of Dong Zhimen Overhead Bridge on the East Second Ring Road, next to the Russian Embassy. Our school has two campuses, 30705 square meters wide, 42111 square meters high. We have more than 2000 students and 260 staff members.

　　Beijing Dong Zhimen Middle School, formerly Beiping No.2 Girls’ Middle School, was founded in 1935. It was renamed Beijing No. 2 Girls’ Middle School after the PRC was founded. Its name was changed to Fan Xiulu Middle School during the Cultural Revolution. In 1980, it was renamed to Beijing Dong Zhimen Middle School. In the 1950s, we set up a nationally renowned class named after “Pavel”. The famous writer Wang Meng’s novel “Long Live Youth” was based on the lives of the students in out first Pavel Class. In 2005, our school was named as Beijing Demonstration School by Beijing Ministry of Education

　　With generation after generation’s hard working by Dong Zhimen’s teachers and students, , we have formed a fine tradition and school spirit with the school motto “Love the country love the school, respect the teachers care the students, work with the spirit of rigorous scholarly pursuits, work persistently with eternal strength and confidence”. Our purpose is let’s the students learn how to do now and what to be in the future. Not only learning the knowledge but learning the way to expand their knowledge as well, we would like to see them continue their all-around personal development in the long run.

　　Our teachers are highly qualified, personally committed and extremely caring towards their students and subject matter. (Our teachers are personally committed and extremely caring towards their students and subject matter. They are highly qulified, some of them had Ph.D degrees, a number of them had master’s degrees.)They form a team having remarkable dedication, harmony and solidarity. Always employing teacher’s professional ethics, they strive in their friendly working environment to constantly increase their knowledge and ability and continually stay abreast in matters of curriculum management, quality evaluation and supervisory control. Dong Zhimen students received exceptional grades in the nation-wide college entrance exams, especially in 1993 and 2005, when our two students , Zhao Qian and Tian He, were awarded the highest scores of Science in Beijing. Wang Shuoshi and Zhang Chengyang were nominated Excellent Beijing Students in 2002 and 2009. On New Year’s Day, 2007, our school orchestra successfully held the New Year’s concert in the Dongcheng District. In 2010, our school orchestra won the first prize in the national art competition for primary and middle schools. Our Girl’s Basketball Team executed an outstanding performance in the 10th National Middle School Students Games.

　　We have an Experiment Center in which we research teaching and education. We have a Psychological Consultation Center， an Information Technology Center, a Sports center, and an Art Center. Our school also has an Activities Center of Popular Science, a tea classroom and a special classroom for general technologies. Thanks to the aid of “Blue Sky” project sources, we as a demonstration school in the city, have made outstanding contributions to education and to social public interests, which constantly improve the reputation of our school.

　　Dong Zhimen is guided by its humanistic philosophy to create a harmonious environment that is very green in practice and technologically advanced, all of which lead to the optimum sustainable development of its students. We, at Dong Zhimen, are trying out best to become nationally acclaimed school, desired by both the Party and the people of the country. We stand as a model in Beijing and a leader in the Dongcheng District, being a school with a rich cultural and individual character, having a superior level of management, advanced teaching facilities, students with high standards and great reputation.

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