Let us get closer to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Party branch secretary and principal of Huaping Girls' High School in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province Zhang Guimei .
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With new expectations, Zhang Guimei, secretary of the Party branch and principal of Huaping Women's High School in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, will go to Beijing to attend the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. She believes that with the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, every child in the mountains will grow better. "Let girls in the mountains have books to read" is Zhang Guimei's always wish. From promoting the creation of the first all-free girls' high school in the country to helping more than 2,000 mountain girls realize their dreams, Zhang Guimei's pursuit of dreams has never stopped. Having been rooted in frontier education for a long time, Zhang Guimei has witnessed many girls dropping out of school due to family poverty and other reasons. A chance encounter on the road to visit home many years ago made her dream of starting a free high school for girls. A thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl sat by the side of the road, looking sadly into the distance. Zhang Guimei stepped forward to ask and learned that her parents asked her to drop out of school and get married for a bride price of 30,000 yuan. Zhang Guimei wanted to take the girl away, but the girl's mother forced her to die, so she had no choice but to give up. In 2007, as the representative of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Guimei held a meeting in Beijing, and a report "I Have a Dream" spread her dream of starting a high school girl. With the help of party committees and governments at all levels, in September 2008, Huaping Girls' High School welcomed the first batch of freshmen. "It is the care of the Party that has made Huaping Girls' High School. The ability of girls in mountainous areas to receive education is a true manifestation of the Party's glory illumination of the frontier. Therefore, no matter how difficult or difficult it is, I will lead the Party member teachers to stick to this position of education and poverty alleviation." Zhang Guimei said firmly. Zhang Guimei still remembers the difficulties at the beginning of running the school: shortage of funds and simple conditions, the school has no walls, dormitories, and toilets, teachers resign, students drop out of school... The school can hardly continue to do it. At that time, Zhang Guimei also had problems with her body, with many small bags bulging on her forehead, back of her head, and arms, and she suffered from 23 diseases. Faced with multiple blows, Zhang Guimei, who almost wanted to give up, found when sorting out the files that 6 of the teachers left were Communists. She immediately strengthened her belief in running Huaping Girls' High School: "The party members are there, and the party organization is there; if there is a party organization, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome." Under the leadership of Zhang Guimei, the Huaping Girls' High School Party Branch was quickly established. She organized party members and teachers to study Party Constitution and study The spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s series of important speeches is to implement the “five one” education activity of “all party members will wear the badge of the party member to work, review the party oath every week, organize theoretical study once a week, sing a revolutionary song every week, and watch a red video every week”, so that every party member can always remember his party member’s identity and show the spirit of hard work and self-reliance to overcome the difficulties encountered in running schools. In order to make the high school students grateful to the party, listen to the party, and follow the party, Zhang Guimei guides the students to learn the party constitution, sing revolutionary songs, and carry out red exercises during class, so that red cultural education can be integrated into all aspects of the school's ideological and political education. Nowadays, the hardware conditions of Huaping Girls' High School are constantly improving, and the overall quality of the teaching staff has been significantly improved. Zhang Guimei has also won many honors such as " Model of the Times ", " National Outstanding Communist Party Member ", " July 1 Medal ". But she still got up at 5 a.m. and was the first to come to the teaching building at 5 a.m.30, lit every light for the students, called morning, toured classes, and led the students to do some exercises during class... She was busy until 12 a.m. late at night, and after the students fell asleep, she dragged her tired body back to the dormitory to rest. "Students get in and out of high scores. The grades of the female high school were exchanged for Teacher Zhang's life." said Zhu Rong, a teacher at Huaping female high school .
Zhang Guimei talked with the student (photo taken on August 23, 2021). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Wenyao
In addition to accompanying students at school, Zhang Guimei has always had the habit of visiting home during winter and summer vacations, and almost every female high school student has her footprints left at home. Nowadays, it is becoming more and more difficult to visit homes like this. Due to severe rheumatism, her feet are so swollen that it is difficult to wear shoes. Sometimes she is so painful that she can only take a wheelchair.Before the winter vacation in January this year, my colleagues advised her again and again, and her feet were swollen like this. It would be better to take advantage of the holiday to take a good rest. Zhang Guimei promised to recuperate well, but as soon as the holiday was on, she hurriedly embarked on the road to visit her home. Shan Qiyan, a 2014 graduate of Huaping Girls' High School, still clearly remembers that Zhang Guimei found herself selling sugarcane on the street when she was visiting her home. "In my third year of high school, my father was in poor health and his family was in a difficult situation. I wanted to carry some sugarcane to the town to sell for money. Unexpectedly, Teacher Zhang happened to be caught by Teacher Zhang." Shan Qiyan said, "Since then, Teacher Zhang often secretly stuffed me money and told me not to worry about the difficulties at home and concentrate on studying." During the college entrance examination this year, Zhang Guimei endured the pain and sent the Huaping female high school students who took the college entrance examination to the examination room. After the students entered the examination room, she waited quietly outside the examination room. This is Zhang Guimei's 12th year of taking the exam. She was worried about the students and insisted on accompanying the students to complete the last moment of high school. After the college entrance examination results came out, the female high school students' hard work in three years has gained rewards. While Zhang Guimei was happy for the students, she felt a little regretful. "The children have achieved the goal, but they are still a little short of the goal in my heart." Zhang Guimei said, "The students of female high school all have a fighting spirit, but they can't jump, and there are two jumps. I believe that the goals I expect will be achieved when taking the postgraduate entrance examination." Zhang Guimei always strictly demands herself with the standards of an excellent Communist Party member, and at the same time requires the teachers and students of female high school to always use the standards of party members. She always reminds the teachers of Huaping Girl High School to devote more effort to the students; she hopes that female high school students can work harder, go further and better, and go to a first-class university in the country to further study. Since its establishment, more than 2,000 graduates from Huaping Girls' High School have been admitted to universities. "In the past 10 years, what we are most proud of is that we can send so many girls from the mountains to college." Zhang Guimei said that many female high school students have now graduated from college and become teachers, doctors, soldiers, policemen... "Where the motherland needs it, children will go wherever they are. No matter which front they are on, they can make their own contributions to the country." "I feel extremely glorious as the elected representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and also have a great responsibility." Zhang Guimei said, "We must insist on being the 'lantern' in the mountains and valleys to illuminate the lights." Zhang Guimei said, "We must insist on being the 'lantern' in the mountains and valleys to illuminate the lights." The way for children to move forward, cultivate more talents for the Party and the country, reassure the Party and satisfy the people. "
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Article author | Pang Mingguang, Wang Anhaowei, Heqian, Li Wenshi
