No.1 Senior High School of Ürümqi


The No. 1 Senior High School of Ürümqi, literally Ürümqi No. 1 High School, colloquially abbreviated as "乌鲁木齐一中" or "乌市一中", sometimes called No. 1 Middle School of Urumqi, is a public high school in Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, under the jurisdiction of the Urumqi Municipal Education Bureau. Founded in 1891 during the Qing dynasty, it is the oldest school in Xinjiang.
Located in the downtown Bei Men at Jiankang Road and North Jiefang Road in Tianshan District, Urumqi, the school is the accredited top-ranking high school in Urumqi city and in Xinjiang, and is considered a typical instance of local secondary education. All of the courses are in Chinese. The students are predominantly Han Chinese, with other ethnic groups including Hui, Uyghur, Kazakh, Mongol, etc.
Starting from August, 2024, the school begin using the new campus located in the Xi'er Street of Kanasihubei Road. With an investment of more than 551 million yuan, the new campus covers an area of 14.5547 hectares and contains two Teaching Buildings, two Science Buildings, one Office Building, one Art Building, one Astronomy-Music Integrated Building, one Stadium, three Dormitory Buildings, one Standard Soccer Field, and one Dining Hall Building.
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History

The institutional predecessor, known as Bo Da Academy of Sinkiang, was founded on August 14, 1891, by the then Qing dynasty, when it was 20 years before the establishment of the Republic of China.
In 2004, a civil North School of the No. 1 Senior High School of Urumqi was founded by the school authorities and their collaborative company known as Xinjiang Jun Fa Industrial & Investment Co. Ltd.
Starting from August 2017, the school begin using the new campus located in the Xi'er Street of Kanasihubei Road.

Facilities

In 2017, the school moved to the Green-Valley Campus. With an investment of more than 551 million yuan, the new campus covers an area of 14.5547 hectares and contains two Teaching Buildings, two Science Buildings, one Office Building, one Art Building, one Astronomy-Music Integrated Building, one Stadium, three Dormitory Buildings, one Standard Soccer Field, and one Dining Hall Building.

Library

The school library is set in the Science Building and has over 90,000 books in store, offering thousands of magazines and newspapers in nearly 520 kinds. The former school library was the oldest high school library in Xinjiang. According to the school chronicles, the library had 5,641 books in 1931, making one of the most famous in the province. In 1966, the number of stored books turned 40,000; however, the Cultural Revolution made an end to it, all its stored books having been looted.
In the late 1970s, the library was reestablished and underwent massive development during the 1980s. The present school library was built in 1989. The library currently occupies 802.12 m2 in area, with 195 seats in the reading room, available for 2 classes at the same time. It provides Senior 3 students with a room for individual study. Three librarians are in charge of the library.
The General Library Integrated System was adopted and put into service in September 2004.

School leadership

Principal Luo Qunyan
Vice-Principal Yan Jingxia

Gao Yueqing
CPC General Branch Secretary Gao Ximei

Students

The school mainly enrolls junior middle school graduates of junior high schools in Urumqi, and a few excellent students from the other parts in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The top students who passed its self-standardized difficult natural-science-oriented tests will form several Natural-Scientific Strong-point Classes. At the end of Senior Grade 1, students who choose Social Sciences will have social-science-oriented tests. The top students will form the Social-Scientific Strong-point Classes. Other students who are not adept at studies but have conspicuous abilities in athletics, basketball or fine arts can be also admissible if they pass the selective tests.
Statistics indicates that the school ranked 6th in 2006, and 2nd in 2008 on a nationwide ranking list by number of the number-one scholars graduates in the College Entrance Examination every year. As of 2008, it had totally developed 10 number-one scholar graduates.

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