Wang Hongzhang got a call in the car.
"Wang Hongzhang? You are assigned to Dingri County. " The other end of the phone said.
The student next to him couldn't hear clearly and asked him, "Set a date? Are you a fixed date? "
Wang Hongzhang nodded.
The students burst into laughter: "You are miserable! Set a date, Shigatse's' Four donkey kong'! "
The Tibetan old man next to him also smiled: "It's very bitter there!"
It was the summer of 20 17. Wang Hongzhang, who is about to graduate from Tibet University, was assigned to Dingri County, Xigaze City, Tibet through the recruitment of teachers in the autonomous region. Because of the difficult conditions, Dingri and other three counties were nicknamed "Four donkey kong" by young people.
Wang Hongzhang's final destination is a complete primary school in Zhaxizong Township, Dingri County. It's 45 kilometers from Mount Everest.
The wind can't blow away the sound of reading.
Every afternoon, the wind in Tashi Zongxiang always comes as scheduled. The magnificent Everest region brings shock and novelty to tourists, but it means bad living conditions for people who have lived here for a long time. At an altitude of 4375 meters, lack of oxygen, strong ultraviolet rays, and strong winds pouring down from the roof of the world can sweep away everything that is weak and has no foundation.
However, in the strong wind, the crisp sound of reading never stopped.
Zhaxi Zongxiang Complete Primary School, the closest school to the highest peak in the world, 6 grades 12 classes. 28 teachers and 528 students care for this small campus together.
From east to west, the only street in Zhaxizong Township is two or three hundred meters long, and there is only one road to the outside world. For a long time, harsh natural conditions have been restricting the development of schools. However, in recent years, thanks to the implementation of various national and local policies to benefit education, the level of running schools has been greatly improved.
Avang Sambu, the principal, said that today, the actual construction area of the school is 1.24 million square meters, and the conditions for running schools have been significantly improved. The experimental class rate reached 100%, the bilingual teaching rate reached 100%, and the math class rate reached 100%. Students go to school without spending money, including food, accommodation and study expenses, and realize three meals and fresh milk and eggs in the morning and evening.
What excites teachers and students even more is that after three years of construction, the new campus of the school was put into use in September this year. In the new campus, all kinds of teaching facilities are readily available, including functional classrooms, dormitories for teachers and students, and office buildings. The brand-new building is in sharp contrast with the old teaching building in the old campus.
The new campus and the old campus are separated by a 5-meter-wide street, which is a new era when Zhaxizong Township is finished.
The wider world
Before meeting Tashi Zongxiang, Mount Everest was Wang Hongzhang's only beautiful dream.
"Excited, excited at the thought of working at the foot of Mount Everest." Wang Hongzhang said.
After a pause, he added cautiously, "I'm more excited."
The discount is on the homework that Wang Hongzhang did in advance. After reporting to Dingri County, he won another lottery and won the primary school in Zhaxizong Township. Faced with this unheard of place name, Wang Hongzhang searched the Internet for the first time, and got the keywords "at the foot of Mount Everest", "windy" and "remote".
Only when he arrived in Zhaxizong Township did Wang Hongzhang know that Mount Everest was the pride of Zhaxizong Township.
Tashi village is located in Mount Everest National Park. It takes less than 40 minutes to drive from Zhaxizong Township to Everest Base Camp. There, visitors can enjoy the magnificent outline of Mount Everest.
In recent years, with the rise of tourism, once quiet mountain villages have gradually become lively. There are rookie stations, online shopping and homestays in the village. Many students' parents run tent hotels at the foot of Mount Everest. Every year from March to 10, thousands of climbers and tourists from all over the world come here.
People flow and logistics give children more and more opportunities to contact the outside world. Ge Sang Roger, vice president, remembers that a few years ago, a teaching team from a mainland university came to the school, and college students asked their children to draw the world outside the mountains in their hearts. Children can only draw flagpoles and flags. Now many children know that Taobao, spaceship and the outside world are very big.
On the way out of Dingri County, Wang Hongzhang calculated that when he arrived at Zhaxizong Township, he had to go through the 100 bend of the Jiawulashan Panshan Highway. "When modern educational facilities and teaching resources are put in place one after another, children's dreams will cross this 100 bend and fly in a wider world." Wang Hongzhang is full of longing.
That year was terrible.
The changes in Zhaxi Zongxiang Primary School in recent years reflect the rapid development of education in Dingri County.
In terms of funds alone, Dingri County has invested nearly 400 million yuan, including the new campus of Zhaxizong Township, and the whole new school has been built 1 1. At the same time, Dingri County clarified the specific responsibilities of each unit and promoted overall cooperation. For example, the county school greening work is entrusted to the Forestry and Grass Bureau, which makes the campus greening work advance rapidly; The Health and Wellness Committee is responsible for the clinic construction of all schools in the county. At present, all schools have set up health care rooms and mental health consultation rooms. Public security, housing construction, culture, finance and other units also have specific tasks.
Dingri county also focuses on solving long-standing problems. According to Zheng, director of the Education Bureau of Dingri County, in view of the aging of the school-level team, in February 2065438+2008, Dingri County completed the adjustment of principals of 22 schools, and the adjustment of vice principals is also in progress; In view of the backward infrastructure of two middle schools in the county, we concentrated funds and invested nearly 20 million yuan in the two middle schools; In view of the difficulty of using water in winter caused by high altitude and bad climate, we will concentrate funds to solve the problem of water supply without towers in some schools; In view of the weak foundation and poor foundation of individual schools, centralized supervision and district promotion are adopted to drive individual schools to improve together.
Ge Sang Luo Jiezhi didn't expect the change speed of Zhaxi Zongxiang Primary School in recent years. In 2007, Grosangjie reported to the school, and he saw the monotonous scenery along the way. When he arrived at school, Grosangjie's heart fell into an ice cave: the teacher had no dormitory, slept in the classroom at night, and later moved into a mud house, but had to endure rain leakage. The school has no electricity, so it only uses solar energy to generate electricity. On a cloudy day, the whole school was dark.
Now, the new campus of Wanxiao Primary School in Zhaxizong Township has been put into use, and the old campus will be preserved and converted into comprehensive utilization, which will greatly improve the space and conditions of the school. When Roger from Ge Sang came to report for duty, a female teacher in the same class cried all the way. Now, this female teacher is the headmaster of a nearby town. "I laughed at her when we met, and she was still embarrassed. Seeing the changes in recent years, we all feel that the suffering in those years is worthwhile. " Ge Sang Roger said.