Han Ximin

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THE High School Affiliated with Southern University of Science and Technology, a boarding high school funded by the city government, will open this September with fresh students for their Freshman year.

The school is located in Fuhai Subdistrict, Bao’an District, and covers 53,000 square meters. With a floor space of 128,000 square meters, the school will have 48 classes.

Wang Peidong, former principal of the high school attached to Xi’an Jiaotong University in Shaanxi Province, has been appointed as principal of SUSTech high school. Wang won a number of awards for teaching, education innovation and reform in Shaanxi and the country.

At the Teachers’ Day ceremony in September last year, Wang, as the only representative from Shaanxi that won the title of model worker in the national education system, was greeted by President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Using the quality education resources of SUSTech, the high school will explore the talent cultivation ability that links high school and the university and will focus on cultivating students of innovative awareness and capability, according to an announcement by SUSTech.

The attached school will set up an academic committee to guide the personalized development of students, render support for teaching teams to maintain teaching and research vitality and vision.

An expert team consisting of academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering will give lectures and participate in the guidance of students for their future careers.

The school will set up a future education research institute to help students develop disciplinary contests, research natural and social sciences, especially in the sectors of information technologies, artificial intelligence and science innovation.

The school will invite academics, experts and public figures from different social sectors to be tutors of the students.

The school will also adopt a project-based interdisciplinary learning mechanism to inspire students to explore sciences at the future education research institute, STEAM center, future classrooms, a 3-D printing research studio that will be built at the school and provide an environment that will be to the all-around benefit and personalized development of students.