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Beijing ChenJingLun High School
北京陈经纶中学
Honesty,Perseverance, Diligence and Innovation 老实 谊强 勤奋 创新
Location
Chao Wai Da Jie 38 Chaoyang District
Beijing, China
Information
Type Public
Established 1921
Headmaster Zhang Deqing (张德庆)
Staff 25
Faculty 191
Enrollment Secondary & Primary school student
Number of students 2400<
Website

Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School (simplified Chinese: 北京市陈经纶中学traditional Chinese: 北京市陳經綸中學pinyin: Běijīng chénjīnglún zhōngxué, also abbreviated as BJCJL), is a highly renowned high school located in downtown CBDs in Beijing. It is one of the first series of beacon high school in Beijing. It was founded in 1921 by a Japanese philanthropist Yasuzo Shimizu (清水安三 Shimizu Yasuzō ?). It has undergone a series of change in name from Chong Zhen School (崇祯学园), to Beijing Female No.4 High School (北京女子第四中学) in 1949, to Chao Yang High School (朝阳中学) during the Cultural Revolution. In 1991,it was finally christened after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan King-Luen (陈经纶, Chen Jinglun).

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History

1921-1949

In the year of 1921, Japanese philanthropist Yasuzo Shimizu (清水安三 Shimizu Yasuzō ?), who had also founded Obirin University (樱美林学院) in Tokyo, arrived at the suburban Beiping, the former name of Beijing. As a missionary of the Japanese Christian United, Yasuzo Shimizu witnessed the impoverished life of suburban Beiping citizens and decided to open a school to educated and help disadvantaged girls in Chaoyang Men Wai Avenue[1].On May 28, 1921, Shimizu officially started his Zhong Zhen School (崇祯学园),thus the beginning of the turbulent yet shiny history of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High school. Starting with a small court yard, the school at that time recruits only women,who took classes and worked at the same time.

1949-1976

With the founding of the People's Republic of China, the school was officially handed over to Beijing Education Bureau as a public school and was renamed Beijing Female No.4 High School, recruiting only women students.

1976-1991

In 1976,Cultural Revolution kicked off a shockwave among high schools all over China. During the revolution, Beijing Female No.4 High School was renamed Chaoyang High School(朝阳中学).[2 ]

1991-present

In 1991, Hong Kong entrepreneur Chen Jinglun donated RMB 20million to Chaoyang High School to renovate the old campus, and the school was renamed Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School by Beijing municipal government[2 ].

Campus

The campus is about the size of 5.5 standard soccer field, about 40,000 square meters. As proudly claimed by its students, the campus building is garden-like. The paths in the campus is all paved with blue rectangular quartz rock. The about 20% of the main campus area is cover with grass and trees like gingko, apricot and Chinese scholartree(槐树).

The school contains one lab building, one auditorium building,one dorm building and four teaching buildings, from A1 to A4. The architecture is in Spanish style[3].

The playground consist of a official sized soccer field, several basketball courts and a regular sized 400 meters track. There is also a olympic sized swimming pool in the auditorium building.

The playground and the 400m lap track, however, are dilapidated and require a major overhaul. Many parts of the synthetic fiber layer covering the lap-track are peeled off. (they've fixed that)

Facilities

Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School has a variety of facilities and resource:[4]

1 telescope dome

1 indoor swimming pool

1 library with more than 9 million books

1 indoor basketball court of 800 square meters

1 lecture theatre with a capacity of 200 people

1 auditorium with a capacity of 2,000 people

1 school cafeteria capable of holding 1000 people having meals at the same time

1 multi-functional reading room

1 400-meter racetrack playground

2 computer science classrooms, each having 40 Lenovo PCs

9 biology, chemistry & physics laboratories

46 classrooms,each packed with a PC and a projector, all linked to the internet

Students

Sports Tradition

Related Schools

Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School(BJCJL) is usually compared with Beijing No.80 Middle School, and Chaoyang Foreign Language High School.

Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School has 2 branch schools:

  • Jiaming Branch School (嘉铭分校)
  • Dijing Branch School (帝景分校)

Alumini

  • Lang Ping (朗平) (Jenny Lang), legendary former Chinese volleyball player and the former head coach of the U.S. women's national volleyball team
  • Li Huifen (李慧芬) Vice-chairman of China Administration of Quality(CAQ, 中国质量管理协会)

See also

References

  1. ^ Brief Biography of Yasuzo Shimizu: http://www.cass.net.cn/file/200304176230.html
  2. ^ a b history of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School: http://www.bjcjl.net/index_eg.htm
  3. ^ Campus architecture of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School: http://www.bjcjl.net/eg/index_Campus%20Enviroment.htm
  4. ^ facilities of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School: http://www.bjcjl.net/eg/index_Teaching%20Facilities.htm

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