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Tang Youxiang: "Head of the First Private High School"

Tang Youxiang, a rural teacher, devoted all his personal efforts to running a school to solve the problem of children from rural farm families in mountain villages. After 19 years of hard work, he founded the first private high school in New China and trained nearly 10,000 graduates. 3,200 of them were admitted to colleges and universities, and hundreds of them went abroad for further studies. The Shangshu Private High School he founded was rated as a first-level key middle school in Zhejiang Province and an outstanding private school in Zhejiang Province. Tang Youxiang himself was also named a reform figure in the new century by "China Reform" magazine and a 21st century cover figure by "Hong Kong Commercial Daily". This year, he invested another 120 million yuan to establish Yuxiang Foreign Languages ??College...

Continuous mountains, winding bamboo forests, and beautiful scenery in Anji County, Zhejiang Province.

In June 2002, on the outskirts of Dipu Town, the county seat, six buildings stood majestically in the open space. The 50,000-square-meter building silently revealed the fact that Yuxiang Foreign Languages ??College was about to open here. Mountain counties were built.

This is the first private university in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. More than five months ago on January 9, this place was still deserted. Yuxiang's groundbreaking ceremony was held in this deserted area. In front of the microphone, a middle-aged man of medium height confidently declared to people: Yuxiang Foreign Languages ??College will definitely become a modern college, and children from the mountains will definitely be able to go to the country and the world from here!

This person is Tang Youxiang, the founder of Yuxiang.

Beside Tang Youxiang, a leader from Anji County was worried about him. Invest 120 million yuan, Tang Youxiang, do you have the ability? But don’t give up halfway!

Not only this leader, but also many of Tang Youxiang’s friends, relatives, peers, and colleagues were worried about him. Although a rural teacher has been running a school for 19 years, and although the private high school he runs has become famous all over the country, this is a university after all. Can you, Tang Youxiang, do it with your own strength?

Such doubts, discussions, worries, and criticisms are all too common for Tang Youxiang. Since the founding of a private high school 19 years ago, in the 19 years of sweat and tears, and blood and blood, there have been not only suspicions, discussions, and criticisms, but also many times of making things difficult, how many times of blocking, how many times of being in desperate situations, and how many times of putting oneself on the line. What a place of death...

The birth and development of Shangshu Private High School, the first private high school in New China, is really a microcosm of the development of private education in China. For Tang Youxiang, the school running 19 years ago and the school running after 19 years are both at a new starting point, but this time the starting point is higher.

The ambition of rural teachers

Tang Youxiang believes in this saying: "Strong young people will make the country strong!"

What can Chinese young people rely on to become strong?

Education!

If you want to make young people strong and the country strong, you must make education strong. As a people's teacher, Tang Youxiang's ambition is to be a good teacher and make the country prosperous for its young people.

However, the reality in the 1980s was not optimistic. Young people in mountain villages generally lack the opportunity to receive education. Without education, how can young people become strong?

In the summer of 1984, the high school entrance examination ended. Only 15% of junior high school students in Anji County can advance to high school, and 85% of junior high school graduates failed in the entrance examination.

Anji County has a population of more than 400,000, but only 4 high schools. Public high schools have strict enrollment plans every year, and their quotas are not allowed to be exceeded. This resulted in a large number of junior high school graduates falling into the water when "thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge".

Children in mountain villages are eager to get a better future through studying. After failing the exam, they are not satisfied with food and restless sleep. Some children are still shouting "I want to study!" in their sleep.

One night, a group of parents of out-of-school children gathered at Shangshuxiang Middle School, and the topic inevitably touched on their children's reading problems.

Can these failed students be allowed to return to junior high school to make a comeback? Someone suggested this. However, this proposal was immediately rejected by the principal and teacher of Shangshu Junior High School - there was no precedent.

Can we open another school? For example, should the village open its own high school to recruit students who have failed? No, there is no money in the village.

But "running a high school" immediately became a lingering topic, tenaciously occupying the hearts of many parents.

"Teacher Tang, please run a high school. You have strong mobility and only you can do it!" A villager said to Tang Youxiang, who had been silent.

"Yes, Teacher Tang, you can do it. You are a farmer and you understand our thoughts best." Everyone agreed.

In fact, when people repeatedly discussed setting up a high school, Tang Youxiang had already had this idea in his mind. Education is a sacred cause that transmits civilization. Since there are so many students who want to study, since everyone thinks that studying is a good thing, and since the country cannot run another high school, why can't individuals undertake such a good thing?

Tang Youxiang was born in a poor peasant family and is a rural teacher born and raised in Shangshu Village, Shangshu Township. He lost his father when he was 6 years old, and soon his family suffered another misfortune. A fire burned down his poor family and left him with nothing. The whole family had to sleep on the stage in the village to pass the time. There were five brothers and sisters, all of whom were supported by their mother. .

"I finished middle school and normal college with scholarships. The party and the people gave me the opportunity to study. I am very grateful to the party and the government and have always wanted to serve the party and the people. This is what I have done for decades. The starting point of my work in the past year has also been the spiritual pillar of my determination to run a school for more than ten years," Tang Youxiang recalled in an interview with reporters.

However, running a private school is not easy. As a teacher, Tang Youxiang knows very well that running a school requires firstly a school building, secondly teachers, and thirdly strong financial backing. What's more, is private education allowed by national policy?

Tang Youxiang fell into deep thought. Why are mountain villages poor? It is not because there is no knowledge or technology. The key is because education is backward. To cure poverty, we must first cure stupidity, and to enrich the people, we must first establish education. The party has trained him for so many years and trained him, a child from a mountain village, to become a people's teacher. Couldn't he use his skills to provide opportunities for children in mountain villages to study?

Tang Youxiang decided to take a chance. After getting his wife's consent, he decided to use the money he had saved to build a new house to run a school. That night, the couple discussed together until late at night. Tang Youxiang couldn't sleep anymore, so he simply got up and drafted a school report.

The County Education Bureau quickly approved the application report.

Tang Youxiang did not expect that he would embark on a difficult road...

The first private high school in New China was born

The news of Tang Youxiang's establishment of a school came out , there was a sensation in the mountain village, and students and parents came in droves. Tang Youxiang borrowed a house to set up an "agricultural vocational class" for 60 people, hired 6 teachers to teach, and also taught part-time himself.

Tang Youxiang’s family has no house, and his wife Zheng Yinfeng works at the township post office. The family of four borrows money to live in a small house in the post office. To this end, the couple saved their money and planned to build a house on their own land. After years of saving, the foundation has finally been laid, more than 7,000 yuan of lumber has been purchased, and the new house is just around the corner.

However, in order to run the school, everything changed. What was built on private foundations was no longer a soup house, but a school building.

After the school running report was approved, Tang Youxiang began the intense preparation work. If you run a private school, you must raise the funds yourself; because it is a private school, banks do not provide loans, and the government does not provide funding, so you have to rely on yourself for everything.

Of course, all the preparatory work for building the school building could only be done by Tang Youxiang himself. From then on, he rode around on that old bicycle.

People in mountain villages are simple and honest. For Tang Youxiang's righteous deeds, the villagers gave him moral and operational support: Yao Cunxiang provided Tang Youxiang with 4 cubic meters of wood at a preferential price; Shanyangwu Coal Mine provided him with more than 20 tons of cement and 30,000 carbonized bricks; The third floor of the newly built house was given to the school as teachers' dormitory...

In the spring of 1985. A 690-square-meter building was built, and the sign "Anji County Shangshu Private Senior High School" was also put up.

Later, a media reported on Tang Youxiang's initiative: "In the 1950s, people beat gongs and drums to take down the signs of private schools; in the 1980s, some people quietly put up the signs of private schools. Come out... Is it true? Is it not true? "

Tang Youxiang did not expect that during this time, he created a first in China - "China Contemporary" edited by the Education Information Management Center of the State Education Commission "Education-Teaching and Research Achievements Overview" determined that Shangshu Private High School is the first private high school since the founding of New China.

A big problem for private schools is where the teachers come from. Since the establishment of the "Agricultural Vocational Class", Tang Youxiang has hired teachers everywhere. He wants to use "the best teachers to teach the worst students."

Tang Youxiang’s experience in running a school moved some leaders. Comrade Li Debao, who was the deputy governor of culture and education at the time, was one of those who enthusiastically supported Tang Youxiang. At a symposium, Vice Governor Li Debao proposed that if private schools did not have teachers, they could go to Hangzhou to recruit retired teachers. The Hangzhou Municipal Education Commission heard that he was running a private school and agreed to recruit retired teachers in Hangzhou. This made Tang Youxiang very excited.

The first target for recruiting teachers is retired physics teacher Hua Wenbai.

Where do the Hua Wenbai family live? The Municipal Education Commission only knew that he lived in Zhaohui New Village, but did not know his detailed address. Tang Youxiang hurried to Zhaohui New Village. However, there are seven communities in Zhaohui New Village with thousands of households. In which district, which building and room does Teacher Hua live?

Hangzhou was like a furnace in July. With the scorching sun above his head, Tang Youxiang was sweating profusely as he walked from neighborhood to neighborhood until he found the Hua family at 9 p.m. Unfortunately, Teacher Hua is not here. I had no choice but to go the next day. The next morning he failed again. In the afternoon, I finally found Teacher Hua. But Teacher Hua rejected his request: He is retired, he is old, and he doesn’t want to work anymore. Tang Youxiang was the kind of person who would never give up until he reached his goal, once, twice, and three times. When he came to invite him for the seventh time, Teacher Hua was finally moved and agreed to teach in Anji.

With this tenacity, Tang Youxiang hired 23 retired teachers in Hangzhou.

Shangshu is a mountainous town with inconvenient transportation. Long-distance buses can only go to Liujiatang, which is 3 kilometers away from the school. Every time the teachers came to Shangshu, Tang Youxiang and his wife always rushed to the station to greet them; when the teachers came home, they both rushed to see them off. The teacher felt sorry for him and advised him not to see him off, but Tang Youxiang insisted on doing so, regardless of the weather.

Shangshu Private High School opened an agricultural vocational class in 1984 and a regular high school class in 1985. The news spread, and the unsuccessful candidates came from the county, other counties, and even from Anhui, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu. , Fujian came to Shangshu. However, due to size restrictions, the school could only enroll 110 students in 1985, and many students were unable to enter the school. This made Tang Youxiang very uneasy. He decided to create conditions to increase the enrollment quota year by year.

However, before the enrollment was expanded, trouble came...

The battle for private schools

After the private high school was built, Tang Youxiang's righteous deeds aroused strong repercussions. His deeds were published in newspapers and on TV, and he was also received by provincial leaders. At this time, various criticisms came.

"Taking public salary to run your own school is a way to show off!"

"Tang Youxiang runs a school store purely to make money!"

Faced with criticism, Tang Youxiang couldn't stand it anymore. In 1986, he proposed to stay on without pay. However, according to relevant policies, teachers cannot remain employed without pay.

Relevant departments strictly ordered Tang Youxiang to return to work in a public school immediately. Private high schools are facing disintegration.

On September 10, 1987, Huzhou Mayor Fei Gennan walked into Shangshu High School. After learning about the situation in detail, he said that private schools should be taken into account. In this way, Tang Youxiang's job retention and suspension of pay was approved.

Also causing criticism are the issues of fees and ownership of school assets. At the beginning of the agricultural vocational class, Tang Youxiang charged each student 60 yuan in tuition per semester, which is 3,600 yuan for 60 students.

Therefore, some people call Tang Youxiang a "school shop" in order to "make a fortune".

In fact, Tang Youxiang spent all his money to establish the school, which cost more than 200,000 yuan and incurred a debt of 30,000 yuan. Even if the 3,600 yuan in tuition income does not pay teachers' salaries or daily water and electricity expenses, but is used entirely to pay off debts, it will still take four years. What's more, Tang Youxiang is still investing: building houses, making desks and chairs, buying instruments... His debts were getting heavier and heavier.

Seeing so many students coming to study, some people were jealous and said that Tang Youxiang had made a fortune.

Tang Youxiang’s family of four lived in a public room at the Shangshu Township Post and Telecommunications Station. There was not even a TV, and the most valuable large wardrobe had no mirror or paint. What kind of fortune did he make?

New things will always be criticized, and old ideas cannot yet accept the new thing of private high schools, so making things difficult is inevitable.

In May 1985, Tang Youxiang suddenly received a notice that graduates of the first agricultural vocational class were not allowed to take the admissions examination for higher-level schools. Suddenly, the school was in an uproar.

Why can’t students from officially approved schools take exams? Tang Youxiang rushed to the county seat. But after running around the county for a day, it had no effect. There was still class the next day, so he had to rush back late at night. On the way, he encountered a sudden heavy rain, thunder and lightning, which made him soaked to the skin.

The next day, he continued to look for people in the county seat. He went to the Education Committee, the county government, the National People's Congress, and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to inquire, appeal, and ask for help. At this time, the exam date was not far away, but the reply I received was still chilling. Time passed day by day, and Tang Youxiang was still running around. The sensible child stuffed the note into his desk: "Principal Tang, you are worried about us. If you are really not allowed to take the exam, don't be embarrassed. We won't I will blame you..." Tang Youxiang's eyes became wet when he saw such a note. Children in mountain villages should have the right to study. Students in private schools are not illegitimate and should be eligible to take entrance exams! Tang Youxiang continued to run from township to county, from county to province, and from department to department. Finally, at the end of the road, suddenly there was a bright light, the superiors approved, and the students of the school were allowed to take the exam. At this time, there are only two days before the exam...

"Using the best teachers to teach the worst students", the quality of Shangshu High School quickly became apparent. In 1988, the average score of the school's first high school class in the college entrance examination ranked second in the county, only 0.1 points behind the first-place public key middle school. Please note that at the time, Shangshu Private Middle School only recruited "five types of seedlings". !

At this time, Shangshu Private Middle School has become a hot spot for junior high school graduates, and many people list it as their "first choice."

However, I never expected that many students who applied for Shangsu Private High School as their first choice were still assigned to public schools, and some even informed Shangsu Private High School that they were not allowed to issue admission notices!

Faced with the pressure, Tang Youxiang argued hard. Although the competent authorities later agreed to admit students, they artificially added an additional problem: the private school enrollment application form must have the signature and seal of the parents.

At that time, it was the busy farming season of Double Summer, and students were already on vacation. Tang Youxiang ran from village to village without saying a word, carrying only a kettle, a bag of dry food, a straw hat, and an old bicycle. When he traveled through more than 30 villages and completed all the seals on the 110 volunteer forms, his inner thighs and buttocks were red, torn and worn due to excessive sweating from riding for a long time...

The matter was not over. In March 1991, in the enrollment plan issued by the County Education Committee, the enrollment qualification of "Shangshu Private High School" was cancelled.

For the school’s right to survive, Tang Youxiang began to appeal and ask for help everywhere, going back and forth from the county to the city to the province. After running around for half a year, there was still no loosening. The reason is: this year’s enrollment plan is full. The Provincial Education Commission stipulates that no breakthrough can be made...

It is already late August, and this year's enrollment seems to be hopeless. Tang Youxiang cried for the first time when he asked the press for help.

However, on August 30, the situation suddenly reversed. Just when Tang Youxiang felt desperate, he received a call and the superior department agreed to enroll students.

Afterwards, Tang Youxiang learned that during this period, reporters from "Guangming Daily", "China Youth Daily", and Xinhua News Agency Zhejiang Branch wrote internal references on this matter. The situation of private high schools being blocked caused the central leaders to of attention.

The enrollment crisis has passed, and Tang Youxiang once again found a way out of desperation.

From the first day of its establishment, Shangshu Private Middle School has been unable to be on the same starting line as public schools. There are always those who believe that the existence of private schools is a threat and a mistake. Therefore, some obstacles were always set up here and there, but these obstacles did not stop Tang Youxiang's steps. On the contrary, they strengthened Shang Shu's determination and strength to resist risks privately.

Towards success

In 1992, Comrade Deng Xiaoping stated during his southern tour that the state encouraged the spirit of social education to go deep into mountainous villages and expand school buildings to meet the educational needs of mountainous villages. Tang Youxiang's heart. After several surveys, he finally found a 78-acre river beach land next to a road and backed by green mountains in the county development zone.

The first phase of the new school building required a total investment of 15 million yuan. .

Where did the money for running the school come from? In fact, in order to solve the problem of new school buildings, Tang Youxiang had already established a Jiaoyuan Industrial Company, Jiaoyuan Furniture Factory and Passenger Transport Company. All the profits were made through the operation. He used all the accumulated profits for the construction of the new school building. There was not enough money, so he had to reluctantly sell all the passenger buses and routes; the couple even used the money from their daughter to honor their parents; in addition, , he mobilized relatives and friends and borrowed money from all over the world. With the help of everyone, a modern new school building with an area of ??78 acres and 26,000 square meters of educational space was finally completed.

The new school building has a lecture theater, gym, music room, dance room, laboratory, library, library, computer room, language room, etc. It is particularly worth mentioning that the new school building has the only 400-meter A standard sports ground with 8 tracks and a practical and modern new school building has been completed and opened.

Lei Jieqiong, Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress, wrote an inscription for the school. : "Contribute to cultivating Chinese talents"

Xu Jialu, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress, cordially received Tang Youxiang in his office. He listened to Tang Youxiang's report and fully affirmed his achievements in running the school.

Mao Zhaoxi, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and a professor at Zhejiang University, serves as the honorary principal of the school

Based on the market and aiming at educating people in the future

At the beginning of the summer of 1999, parents of students at Shangshu Private High School. We all received an open letter from the school. The open letter stated that the school will cancel the "Three Good Students" selection in the next semester.

The "Three Good Students" selection is a common practice in universities, middle schools and primary schools in my country after liberation. Measures have been promoted across the country for decades, and relevant systems and supporting policies have been formed. Why did Shangshu Private High School cancel this activity?

This is an exploration of Tang Youxiang’s teaching management. .

Tang Youxiang believes that the era of knowledge economy is coming, and this new era has put forward new requirements for talent training. Education methods guided by old educational concepts cannot cultivate talents that can adapt to the new era. National quality education belongs to national quality education. National quality education should be a kind of homogeneous education, requiring education to be oriented to the majority. On the other hand, too much introduction of incentive mechanisms in national quality education is detrimental to the growth of students. Our education should make the students more educated. As an educator, everyone succeeds, not just some. Education cannot cultivate losers.

The selection of "three good students" is based on the above considerations.

At this time, Shangshu Private High School has been identified by the Ministry of Education as a key experimental school for the "Ninth Five-Year Plan". Since its establishment, the school has been adhering to the tenet of "not asking everyone to advance to higher education, but asking everyone to become successful." At this time, the school's purpose has been revised to "Education should make everyone successful, and cannot cultivate losers."

Regarding the reform of "Three Good Students", Shao Yucheng, a former teacher from the Teaching and Research Office of Anji County Education Commission, said that he very much agrees with the approach of Shang Shu Private School. "I have been teaching for more than 40 years and have taught countless students, but few of them are 'three good students' who are truly successful. This caused me to reflect. I found that those who are rated as 'three good students', in addition to good grades, , they are obedient, submissive in front of the teacher, and have no personality, but the teacher likes these obedient students and thinks they are easy to manage. This is a misunderstanding in our student evaluation system and evaluation standards. "

But. At the beginning, some leaders and teachers in Shangshu Private Middle School did not understand this reform. A vice-chancellor objected. The reporter found an old teacher named Jin who clearly expressed his opposition to this practice. He said that the evaluation of "three good students" has been implemented in our country for decades, and there is a complete set of rules and regulations to ensure that the evaluation of "three good students" is also linked to many benefits. For example, "three good students" above the municipal level can add 20 points to the college entrance examination, and the evaluation is cancelled. "Three good things" are irresponsible to students. If the college entrance examination is not reformed, other schools will engage in competition. If our school does not compete, it is equivalent to withdrawing from the social merit-based mechanism, and only the students will suffer.

An education expert said that the "three good" measures are commonly implemented in my country's compulsory education stage, and the results are contrary to the original intention. Compulsory education is fair education for the masses, not selective education. Too much introduction of incentive mechanisms at this stage is detrimental to students' growth. Dividing students into upper, middle, and lower grades too early hinders students' growth.

The practice of canceling the evaluation of students with good grades has caused strong repercussions in China’s education circles. Many schools have expressed their approval. Under the initiative of Shangshu Private High School, many schools have also adopted this approach.

Tang Youxiang often said that market demand is the goal of running a school. Therefore, paying attention to the market, studying the market, and setting up majors according to market demand have become Tang Youxiang’s school-running principles.

In Shangshu Private High School, there are many similar reforms. The most prominent one is the "order enrollment" method implemented by the school. This method is called "a pioneering work in education", and Tang Youxiang calls it "putting 'export' first".

What is "order enrollment"? On June 6, 2002, the reporter walked into the school. Tang Youxiang told reporters that Yuxiang Foreign Languages ??College will enroll students in the second half of the year. He has signed employment agreements with Shanghai companies for 530 graduates. In three years, Yuxiang will send 530 graduates to Shanghai.

This is "order-based enrollment" --- before students enter the school, the school has already arranged their way out, first finding the market and then establishing majors, and promotes students like products. In recent years, it has been difficult for graduates from many schools to be allocated. However, graduates from Shangshu Private High School and Vocational High School have basically implemented the allocation unit before the students enter school. This is rare in the country.

Shangshu Private Vocational High School regards the market as the lifeline of the school. According to market demand, it first makes a contract, then establishes majors and organizes "production". Tang Youxiang believes that this is the theory of "market economy also has plans". Practical applications.

In 1994, Tang Youxiang received information from the General Education Office of the Provincial Education Commission: the demand ratio for graduates majoring in Japanese was 17:1, and further learned that 60% of foreign-funded enterprises in my country are Sino-Japanese joint ventures . This made him make an immediate decision: to establish a Japanese language class. Nowadays, Japanese language graduates from Shangshu have become "hot commodities" in the market.

But that can only be regarded as the benefit of vague information in the early stage of the market. Fuzzy information carries obvious uncertainty. Once the market changes, the product will run into trouble. The "plan in the market economy" is certain, and its symbol is the contract.

In 1997, Tang Youxiang found Santi Company in Beijing when he was promoting "products".

When serving users, the company found that many hotels complained that they could not recruit qualified waiters. This information immediately gave birth to a plan: the school signed a contract with Santi Company: to provide 100 star-rated hotel waiters every year, with Santi Company Promote the company to major hotels.

After the sales problem was solved, Tang immediately organized "production" and started a "star hotel class".

Using the same method, Tang Youxiang signed a contract with Shanghai Pengxin Group Company: to provide the group with 100 "property management" professionals every year to adapt to the emerging industry of property management. In this way, the school's property management class has started again.

The market comes first, and the majors come later. This is one of the reasons for the school’s success.

Recently, when a manager came to recruit talents, he sighed: It would be great if students could increase their driving skills. After hearing the news, Tang Youxiang decided to immediately add driving courses and every student must learn to drive. He has already started planning this work.

Modern society needs all-round generalists. The school implements the "one diploma, multiple certificates" training model, and offers courses in foreign languages, computers, car driving, and accounting for each major. One diploma and multiple certificates greatly broaden the employment channels for graduates of this school.

Zhang Jinkang, the school's vice principal, said: "Private schools are more urgently aware of the issue of 'products' than public schools. What Shangshu Private High School solves is exactly what public schools and even many private schools have not paid attention to." There is no solved problem. "

In 2001, private schools had difficulties in recruiting students, but Shangshu was still popular. Last year, the foreign language program at the vocational high school admitted 630 students, but more than 1,400 people signed up. In addition, 2,500 people received letters and phone calls asking to study. In recent years, the employment rate of graduates from Shangshu Private Middle School has reached 98%.

Yuxiang College of Foreign Languages ??is recruiting students this fall. As soon as the news came out that Tang Youxiang had signed contracts with several companies in Shanghai and that all students would work in Shanghai after graduation, people came to sign up immediately. "Twenty-two people have signed up in advance. The first person to sign up was a technical secondary school student named Wang Xiuyue." Tang Youxiang said.

Towards Glory

After Tang Youxiang’s tenacious and unyielding spirit of running a school spread in the education circle and society, the media reported one after another. According to incomplete statistics, "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", "China Education News", "China Youth Daily", "Liberation Daily", "Wen Wei Po", "Zhejiang Daily", Hong Kong "Wen Wei Po", "Hong Kong Commercial Daily" ", "Macau Daily", Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun", "Asahi Shimbun", Xinhua News Agency's "Daily Telegraph" and other more than 50 newspapers and periodicals have reported on his deeds. CCTV, Zhejiang TV and Huzhou TV have also introduced him many times. the school’s performance.

In numerous media reports, some reporters naturally called Tang Youxiang, who spent all his money and borrowed money to run a school, as "contemporary martial arts training" or "the second martial arts training".

Indeed, Tang Youxiang is similar to Wu Xun who was begging to run a school. The difference is that Tang Youxiang not only ran the school, but also managed it well. This was beyond the reach of Wu Xun back then. of.

In the 19 years since its establishment, Shangshu Private School has trained nearly 10,000 talents of various types, of which more than 3,200 have been sent to colleges and universities for further studies, and hundreds have studied abroad.

19 years ago, Tang Youxiang founded a 60-person agricultural vocational class with only 6 teachers. Today, Shangshu Private Middle School has a construction area of ??26,000 square meters, complete facilities, 10 majors, 49 teaching classes, more than 2,300 students and nearly 200 faculty members, of which 49% have senior professional titles and 7 foreign experts name. Japanese major and English major have become the school’s specialty majors.

The school’s first Japanese class in 1993 took the International Japanese Language Test for the first time, and its average score exceeded the international passing score by 74 points. After hearing the news, Japan’s "Asahi Shimbun" went to the school. He was interviewed by the school and made a special report in two pages of "Asahi Pictorial".

On March 19, 1996, the third-grade Japanese class and the second-grade Japanese class of Shangshu Private Middle School received the International Level 3 Certificate and Level 2 Certificate respectively from the Japan International Examination Center. Shangshu Private Middle School has obtained the international second-level certificate, which means that the school’s Japanese secondary school class has actually reached the level of college graduation.

75 students from the English major class took part in the Zhejiang Provincial English Proficiency Level 2 Test in the 1998 academic year, and all of them entered the ranks of outstanding students with a score of 85 or above, and 7 of them received full marks.

At the same time, English majors also participated with college students in the BEC (British Cambridge Business English Certificate) exam held at Zhejiang University. In this international proficiency exam, which requires college students to obtain CET-4 in English, they , the passing rate of Shangshu students reached 75%. In 2001, students from this school won the first place in three Huzhou English listening, speaking and conversation competitions.

So far, Shangshu Private High School has established a "3+2" school-running model with 10 universities including Shanghai University School of Economics and Management. At the same time, it has formed sisters with Columbia International College in Canada and Tokyo International Language Institute in Japan. school, and cooperates with Kyoto Computer Institute in Japan. Graduates of Shangshu Private Middle School can directly enter the above-mentioned colleges for further study.

In order to cultivate students' multi-purpose skills and enhance students' ability to adapt to society. In 1991, Shangshu Private Middle School jointly established the "Agricultural Science and Education Experimental Field" with the Edible Fungi Research Institute of Zhejiang Agricultural University; in 1993, it jointly established a Japanese technical secondary school class with Wendeng Sino-Japanese Friendship Japanese Technical Secondary School; in 1996, it cooperated with Zhejiang Electronics Industry The college jointly established the Huzhou teaching point of the Zhejiang Branch of the Computer Training Center of the People's Republic of China; in 1997, it jointly established a star hotel foreman and department manager class with Beijing Santi Service Company...

Shangshu Private Middle School has achieved certain social benefits and reputation in the past 19 years. In 1996, Shangshu Private High School was included in the "Overview of China's Contemporary Education and Research Achievements" by the Cultural Information Management Center of the Ministry of Culture and the former Education Information Management Center of the State Education Commission and recognized it as "the first private senior high school in New China"; in the same year, Shangshu The private middle school was rated as "Huzhou City's Advanced Unit of Social Forces in Running Schools"; in 1998, it was approved by the Central Institute of Education as an experimental school for "Research on Improving Education Quality for the 21st Century". At the end of 1999, Shangshu Private Middle School successfully passed the inspection as a first-level key vocational and technical school in Zhejiang Province. In February 2000, it was rated as an outstanding private school in Zhejiang Province by the Provincial People's Government. Tang Youxiang was also named a "New Century Reform Figure" by "China Reform" magazine and a "21st Century Cover Figure" by "Hong Kong Commercial Daily".

In Shangshu Private School, this private school that had been nearly killed several times finally came out of the "separate book"; it finally gained social recognition; it finally received the flowers and applause it deserved.

The ambitious Tang Youxiang was not satisfied. The teaching building of Yuxiang Foreign Languages ??College is about to be completed, and it will recruit students soon; recently, he established Anji Yuxiang Education Development Company, which will implement group operations. He invested 10 million yuan to establish an ecological education base; in an auction, he He bought a public junior high school that can accommodate 300 students; he bought 150 acres of land and leased 1,500 acres of mountainous land to build a training base for foreign student exchanges and students studying abroad; he also wanted to establish a branch school in Japan and run an international school path, his development direction is: to establish a private education group with considerable strength...