The hands of the three parties who signed the contract were clasped together. Photo by Yang Xingle
On the afternoon of May 12, 2017, the signing ceremony of the "Guangdong University of Foreign Studies attached Jiangmen Foreign Language School (tentative name) framework agreement signing ceremony was co-sponsored by the People's Government of Xinhui District, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and Jiangmen Mingguan Education Investment Co., Ltd. "It was grandly held in the International Conference Hall of the Hyatt Hotel in Jiangmen City. The school is invested and constructed by Jiangmen Mingguan Education Investment Co., Ltd., and implements the model of "government support, enterprise investment, and foreign education". The school plans to use no less than 180 mu of land. The first phase of the school will open pre-school education/primary/junior high school, which is scheduled to open in 2018; the second phase will open high school/international high school, which is scheduled to open in 2021, with a total of 3,800 students.
Tripartite cooperation, the introduction of prestigious schools is generally supported
"If we can deploy several private schools, children in Jiangmen will not have to send to Zhongshan or Guangzhou or Foshan to study, and they can go to prestigious schools at their doorstep." Some interviewed citizens generally support the introduction of prestigious schools in Jiangmen to run schools. attitude.
In 2012, the Xinhui District Government decided to build the Xinhui No.1 Zhongnanhu Campus in Nanxin District, initially positioning it as an ordinary high school. The total planned area of the project is about 283 acres. After completion, it can provide 3,600 high-quality high school degrees. According to estimates, the total investment in the Nanhu campus project is about 820 million yuan, and it is difficult for the finance of Xinhui District to complete the investment within three to five years. At the same time, considering that "the existing general high degree degree is relatively abundant", the Xinhui District government adjusted the original construction project to introduce high-quality brand schools in the province, and adopted the "government support enterprise group investment + prestigious school brand leadership" trinity school model to run the school.
Once the concept was changed, famous schools successively settled in Xinhui. First Guangya, then Guangwai.
Beginning in 2016, with the support of the leaders of Jiangmen City and Xinhui District, GDUFS and Jiangmen Mingguan Education Investment Co., Ltd. have actively coordinated and planned to hold a new school in Xinhui District. During this period, the three parties have met and talked many times. , And finally reached a consensus.
For the entry of such a heavyweight school, Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, Xinhui District Party Committee and District Government attach great importance to it, and require functional departments at all levels to provide strong support in the construction of the project, provide better and more efficient services, and promote the project Smooth development. In May of this year, Poly Real Estate, the leading real estate company under the central government, joined forces with Guangdong Mingguan Group to take the lead in the Junkai House project. As a supporting school for the real estate project, Poly Real Estate and Mingguan Group made it clear that they will fully support Mingguan Investment Co., Ltd. economically to ensure the smooth completion of the school project with high quality and efficiency.
Mo Guanliang, Chairman of Mingguan Group, said that during the nearly one-year negotiation process with GDUFS, “the leaders of Jiangmen City contact GDUFS personally, hoping that GDUFS will be stationed in Jiangmen. The leaders of Xinhui District Committee and District Government and related parties The full support of the functional departments has allowed us to have such a tall project platform to give back to the people of Jiangmen."
At the signing ceremony, Yang Aimin, vice president of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, said that the project of the Jiangmen Foreign School attached to GDUFS started to be docked in 2016. The implementation of the project will help promote the development of Jiangmen education and also help strengthen GDUFS’s basic education brand. The overall strength has created a good start for further in-depth cooperation between the three parties in the future.
Positioning high-end and becoming an educational business card
In 1993, Guangwai established the first public-owned and privately-run high-end all-boarding quality education school—Guangwai’s attached foreign school. In recent years, GDUFS has co-organized a number of high-end private basic education schools and kindergartens in Zhongshan, Zengcheng, Zhaoqing, Foshan and other places with its own strong academic resources and human resources, as well as experience in running schools outside the school. The road to basic education. According to Yang Aimin, vice president of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, as of 2017, there are 8 schools and 2 kindergartens under the Affiliated School of Guangwai University, with more than 10,000 students.
According to the plan, the People’s Government of Xinhui District will provide recommendations for school site selection and provide support within the scope permitted by laws, regulations, rules and policies; Guangdong University of Foreign Studies will be responsible for providing basic education brands, teaching concepts, method systems, and management Team input, responsible for the daily teaching organization and management of the school; Jiangmen Mingguan Education Investment Co., Ltd. will be responsible for investing in the Jiangmen Foreign Language School project attached to Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and responsible for the continuous investment of school funds to ensure the smooth implementation of the project.
"With the completion and commissioning of many super large projects such as CRRC Guangdong and its industrial chain, coupled with the rapid development of the secondary and tertiary industries, it will inevitably bring a large number of high-quality migrants to Xinhui and Jiangmen, and the regional education needs are especially It is the demand for high-quality and characteristic education services and the source of degree students will rapidly expand." Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee Member Li Weimin said at the signing ceremony that this is not only a pressure, but also a motivation and opportunity for the development of basic education in Xinhui District and Jiangmen City. "I sincerely hope that Jiangmen Foreign Language School will be able to run its own characteristics and achieve results, and become a beautiful business card for the balance of compulsory education in Jiangmen, the diversification of educational services, and the internationalization of educational cooperation."
It is reported that the school is positioned as a high-end international bilingual school. In the pre-school and compulsory education stages, the national curriculum and the international curriculum system are integrated, and the main courses are bilingual teaching; the high school stage introduces mainstream international curriculum projects from American and Canadian high schools, which are domestic and foreign First-class universities provide excellent resources.
It is reported that in addition to absorbing local students, Guangwai Jiangmen Affiliated School also plans to recruit students from Shunde, Yangjiang and other places, with Jiangmen as the fulcrum, radiating the surrounding areas.
[Coordination] Liang Wenyue
[Reporter] Yang Xingle
[Correspondent] Xiao Hao
[Source] Nanfang Daily
