Anna Zhao

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    NANSHAN District will see its international education expand as construction started on a new international school campus, accommodating 800 students from expatriate families, in Xili in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, on Thursday.

    The new campus of the International School of Nanshan Shenzhen (ISNS), covering a total area of 15,000 square meters, will include a six-story main building, a four-story kindergarten and an 11-story dormitory. It is expected to be put into use in the fall next year.

    All classrooms will be facilitated with high-technology teaching equipment and wireless connectivity.

    The campus will also include a 300-seat auditorium, science labs, computer labs and separate libraries for the kindergarten and a main building, as well as an outdoor sports field, an indoor swimming pool and other sports venues supporting students’ athletic development, the school said.

    The campus will give full consideration to environmental protection by applying green and energy-saving technology to its architecture, such as using solar energy for power and air-refreshing systems to increase studying comforts.

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    Brain Forsythe, principal of ISNS, said during the groudbreaking ceremony that the entire community of ISNS is welcoming the opportunity and the challenges to help build a world-class school utilizing the IB curriculum from Canada which will produce worldly graduates.

    Dr. Francis Pang, chairman of Canada-based AKD International Education Inc., which is the parent company of ISNS, said that the opening marks the beginning of a new page of ISNS, where students and educators work together for a successful future and will empower the future citizens of the world.

    Yu Xinguo, head of Nanshan District, said the construction of a new ISNS campus marks further success in Shenzhen of education exchange between China and Canada. Yu said that ISNS, since its opening in 2002, has offered high-quality education for the children of expatriates who live and work in the district and helped attract talents in all fields as well as boosting the district’s quality of international education. He hoped the school will continue to contribute to the district’s economic and social development by incorporating Sino-Western ideas on education and cultivate more international talents.

    Nanshan District is currently home to six international schools which provide more than 3,000 school seats to children of foreign nationalities or Chinese residents of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.