In the northeast part of Sichuan Basin there is a place named Bazhong,where the center of ancient Ba Guo State as well as the second Chinese Revolutionary Base during the Civil War of China was.
And Bazhong Longquan Foreign Languages School,a private boarding school, situatedhere，was set up in 2002. High in the frontlies the Lingyun Pagoda,an ancient budduist pagoda , and the Wangwang Mountain Park at the back, and the Beikan Budduist Temple on the left and the Nankan Forest of Steles on the right, on which carvedthe portraitsand stories of the Chinese Red Army in the First Civil War of China. Standing on the buildings of the school, you can have a good view ofBazhong City.
Zhang Si Xun, a great astronomerin the East Han Dynasty,andYen Yang Chu, a world-known educator,were bothborn here. Also many ancient great poets, like Li Bai and Du Pu ,used to stayhere and leftfamous poemsin Bazhong. In the campus of the school grow all kinds of flowers and green trees ,which send outdelicate fragrance all year round. Students can read,play tricks and take a rest under trees and flower gardens, and have sports happily on the playground. At the Entrance spreads a Broad way to the Center Square called the Ming Ren Way, onboth sides of which aremany statues of world- known persons like Newton, Einstein , Madame Curie and so on,who are encouraging the teachers and students to work hard,and there are also some example students graduated from here.
After a long-time thinking, Mr Li Yong-fu , a well-known English teacher ,gave up his teaching in thepublic schoolin the spring of 2002, and started to set up this school with another 40 teachershaving common ideas,his co-operatorsalso from the local public schools .Without so much money to support,they had to go all out and used up all they had and borrowed money from friends in society to build up the school.
Mr Li and his team defined their guiding education ideology as“Focus on moral education and students’development in future career”, and with the development of the education cause , the team spirits as “Work hard, learn to share, be broad-minded and be best”are beginning to form which are regarded as the soul of the whole team.
After 18 years of hard work , Bazhong Longquan Foreign Languages School has become a first-class private school which has over 4300 students with about 80 classes and almost 400 staff-members altogether nowadays.Many Students have entered famous universities in and out of China,like Beijing University, QinghuaUniversity,FudanUniversity,GeorgeWashingtonUniveris-ity,and so on after graduation from here.She has been praised by the government authorities and whole society.
