Beijing 101 Middle School

Beijing 101 Middle School 北京市一零一中学
百尺竿头，更进一步 Beyond perfection
Address
No.11 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District (100091) Beijing China
Information
Type	Public
Established	1946
School district	Haidan
Principal	Guo Han
Campus	Suburban
Website	Official website

Beijing 101 Middle School (Chinese: 北京市一零一中学 or 北京市101中学 or simply 101, Pinyin: Běijīng shì yī líng yī zhōngxué), also known as Beijing No.101 Middle/High School, is a coeducational public middle school for both boarding and day students in grades 7 to 12 (ages 12 to 18). The school is in Xiyuan, Haidian District of Beijing, half mile from Zhongguancun (Chinese: 中关村), the city's IT center. It is one of the beacon high schools accredited by Beijing Municipal Government. It has two affiliated schools.

Campus

One of the five artificial lakes; built in the 18th century

Beijing 101 Middle School is renowned for its study environment. Its 200,000 square meter campus is surrounded by the Old Summer Palace, one of China's most splendid imperial palaces. Dozens of ponds dot the whole campus. 13,000 square meters of 101 are covered by water. Peking University and Tsinghua University, known as the best two universities in mainland China, are both within half a mile. The school has undergone reconstruction work since 2005. The school's academic facilities include a library housing 100,000 books and magazines, an electronic library, 100 classrooms with multi-media equipment, a lecture hall, a 700-people auditorium, an information center, a 300 m² greenhouse supported by NASA and China Space Center. The school has two standard soccer fields, six tennis courts, 16 basketball courts, a 400-meter track and a gymnasium for volleyball, dancing and ping-pong.

History

Beijing 101 Middle School was founded in 1946, just after the victory over Japan in the Second World War. The school was founded on the war-torn Zhangjiakou, a town in the nearby Hebei Province. Soon after 101's foundation, the Chinese Civil War begun and both students and teachers were forced to move. After two years of moving, the school entered Beijing City and built its first permanent campus in Xiyuan, Haidian District. This moving is known as "the Long March of 101".

In the first 20 years of its history, the school was only open to children of the country's top-ranking officers. Zhou Enlai, the former premier of P.R. China, once visited the school and encouraged students to achieve their dreams at 101. After Mao Zedong commented on 101's discriminate admission policies in 1964, the school was opened to all students disregard of their family backgrounds. Jiang Zemin, the former General secretary of Communist Party and President of China, and Li Peng, the former Chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC), both congratulated the school and wrote couplets when the school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1996. In 2003, premier Wen Jiabao visited the school and encouraged the students to carry on the school's rich traditions. During the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, 101 was chosen to hold the Youth Camp of the XXIX Olympia.

Early history

March 1946, Zhangjiakou Municipal School, the prototype of Beijing 101, was founded by the People's Liberation Army in Hebei Province.
September 1946，Zhangjiakou Municipal School, Municipal Girl's School, Huimin Middle School evacuated from Zhangjiakou. The three schools moved across Taihang Mountains, arrived at Jianping County(now called Pingshan County), Hebei Province.
November 1946, the three schools were united and named as Jin Cha Ji Frontline United Middle School (Chinese: 晋察冀边区联合中学).
January 1948, the United Middle School moved to the suburb of Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province.
August 1948, the Xingzhi Middle School was incorporated by the United Middle School, and the new school was named as Huabei Yucai Middle School (Chinese: 华北育才中学).
January 1949, Huabei Yucai Middle School moved to Wanping, a small town southwest of Beijing City.
May 1949, Huabei Yucai became a middle school affiliated to Peking Normal University.
1951, based on the agreement of Zhou Enlai, the school built its first permanent campus in the Old Summer Palace.
1955, the school was renamed as Beijing 101 Middle School according to the suggestion of Guo Moruo, a famous Chinese poet and author.

Principals of 101

Name	Position	Incumbent time
Renchu Hao	School founder.	1946.3-1952.6
Yizhi Wang	Second principal.	1952.7-1982.1
Zhanwu Liu	Principal	1982.1-1984.8
Rongxing Gu	Principal	1984.9-1992.2
Yulong Wang	Principal	1992.3-1999.3
Han Guo	Principal	1999.3-

Yizhi Wang, the second principal, is the most respected principal in 101's history. As a principal who had led the school for almost 30 years, through both Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, Wang made substantial contributions to the school and its students.

Academics

Since 1946, Beijing 101 Middle School has been one of the best middle schools in China. Before the school was opened to society based on the non-discrimate admission policy, 101's special position had brought the school the best education resources. Before the Education Department called for a change in public schools' admission standards several years ago, 101's student body composed of the top 5% of applicants from each year.^[1] Over 80% of the students are enrolled in the country's key universities. 98% of 101's graduates get into colleges or universities each year, almost the highest rate in mainland China. In 2008, the liberal arts department sent 99.3% of its students to universities all around the world, the highest rate in several years.^[2]

Unlike most schools in mainland China, 101 runs a very intense independent study program. Over 10% of the students have independent science programs that might take them more than a year to finish. In 2006, an asteroid was named after Zhongyuechen, a student at Beijing 101 High School, due to her newest biology discovery. The asteroid is now known as 21725 Zhongyuechen. 101 is also one of the few public schools in China which offers courses for more than five foreign languages.

Activities

The school's Jinfan Orchestra

In the last few years, the school has tried to attract international attention. 101 was chosen as the Olympic Youth Camp of the Beijing XXIX Olympia. Students from more than 50 countries spent their Olympic summer at 101. Beijing 101 Middle School was also the last leg of Beijing XXIX Olympic's torch relay. The torch was ignited in Olympia, Greece, after 129 days of relay, passing 19 countries all around the world. The torch reached Beijing 101 Middle School and ended its journey in front of 101's Lecture Hall. Beijing 101 Middle School also hosted the 2007 Annual Summit of International School Connection (ISC). The school has built a relationship with the Olympic Delegation of Montenegro, a new country on the Balkan Peninsula.

The school's orchestra, Golden Sail (also known as Jinfan or 金帆), has travelled around the world in the last ten years. In August 2005, Golden Sail Orchestra won the first place of 34th International Youth Music Festival in Vienna, Austria. The school also has a girls' volleyball team which won 2nd place in a national tournament in 2006.

101 holds a lot of speeches every year. Barry Marshall, the 2005 Nobel Medicine Prize winner, Kai-Fu Lee, the head of Google China, and dozens of scientists and scholars have made speeches at 101 in the last three years.

Notable alumni

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China.^[3]
Zeng Qinghong, former CPC Politburo Standing Committee member (2002–2007) and Vice-President (2003–2008) of China.
Li Tieying, vice-president of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
Shi Guangnan, musician, known as the "People's Musician".
Liu Qi, former Mayor (1999–2003) of Beijing, President of Beijing 2008 Olympic Organizing Committee.
Liu Jingmin, vice-mayor of Beijing, vice president of Beijing 2008 Olympic Organizing Committee.
Cui Yongyuan, talk show host of China Central Television.
Zhang Meiying, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Xie Fei, film director, winner of the Gold Bear Prize for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Liao Hui, vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), director of State Department's Hong Kong, Macau Affairs Branch.
Carma Hinton, documentary filmmaker and professor.
Hu Shuli, editor-in-chief of Caixin Media.
Wu Shaozu, former director of the National Sports Committee.
Bai Keming, former first-in-charge of Hainan province, president of CCP Hainan Branch.
Wen Xingyu, actor, best known for his performance in I Love My Family (我爱我家）.

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Prominent high schools in Beijing

Beijing No.4 High School High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China Beijing 101 Middle School High School of Peking University High School attached to Tsinghua University Beijing No.8 Middle School Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University Beijing Huiwen Middle School Beijing No.5 High School Beijing No.80 Middle School Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School

Public senior high schools in Beijing Ordinary schools and Beacon high schools

In a Chinese context "Middle school" (中学) means a combined junior and senior high school. 中学 may be translated as "middle school" or "high school" Related：High school Beacon high schools (ZH) Beijing Municipal Education Commission(北京市教育委员会) List of public high schools in Chinese

Dongcheng District	No. 2 (ZH) No. 5 No. 55 No. 166 No. 171 (ZH) Dongzhimen (ZH) Jingshan School Huiwen No. 11 (ZH) No. 50 (ZH) No. 109 (ZH) Guangqumen (ZH)

Xicheng District	No. 4 No. 8 (ZH) No. 13 (ZH) No. 35 (ZH) No. 161 (ZH) Beijing Normal University Experimental Beijing Normal University Second Railway No. 2 (ZH) Xicheng Foreign Languages School (ZH) No. 14 (ZH) No. 15 (ZH) No. 66 (北京市第六十六中学) Beijing Normal University Affiliated Beijing Huimin School (北京市回民学校) Yu Cai School (ZH)

Chaoyang District	No. 17 (北京市第十七中学) No. 80(北京市第八十中学) No. 94 (ZH) BJ Univ. of Tech. Attached Chen Ling Jun Ritan Hepingjie No. 1 (北京市和平街第一中学)

Fengtai District	No. 10 (北京市第十中学) No. 12 (ZH) No. 18 (北京市第十八中学) Fengtai District Fengtai No. 2 (北京市丰台区丰台第二中学)

Shijingshan District	No. 9 (ZH) Pingguoyuan (北京市苹果园中学) Badachu (北京市八大处中学) Capital Normal University Pingguoyuan (首都师范大学附属苹果园中学)

Haidian District	Peking University Affiliated Tsinghua University Attached Renmin University Affiliated 北京理工大学附属中学首都师范大学附属中学 No. 101 No. 20 (北京市第二十中学) Northern Jiaotong University Attached (ZH) No. 81 (北京市八一学校) Beijing Zhongguancun School (北京市中关村中学) Beijing National Day School(北京市十一学校)

Mentougou District	Beijing Dayu School (北京市大峪中学)

Fangshan District	北京师范大学良乡附属中学北京市房山区房山中学北京市房山区良乡中学北京师范大学燕化附属中学

Tongzhou District	北京市通州区潞河中学北京市通州区运河中学北京市通州区永乐店中学

Shunyi District	Shunyi District No. 1 (北京市顺义区第一中学) Shunyi District Niulanshan No. 1 Shunyi District Yangzhen No. 1 (ZH)

Changping District	Changping District No. 1 (北京市昌平区第一中学) Changping District No. 2 (北京市昌平区第二中学)

Daxing District	Daxing District No. 1 (北京市大兴区第一中学) Daxing District Xinghua (北京市大兴区兴华中学)

Huairou District	Huairou District No. 1 (北京市怀柔区第一中学)

Pinggu District	Beijing Pinggu No. 5 High School (北京市平谷区第五中学) Beijing Pinggu High School (北京市平谷中学)

Miyun County	Beijing Normal U. Miyun Experimental (北京师范大学密云实验中学) Capital Normal U. Miyun Attached (首都师范大学附属密云中学) Miyun County No. 2 (北京市密云县第二中学)

Yanqing County	Yanqing County No. 1 (北京市延庆县第一中学)

Coordinates: 40°00′08″N 116°18′01″E / 40.0021°N 116.3004°E / 40.0021; 116.3004

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