Ningbo Middle School is a prestigious high school offering education from a junior-high to senior-high level in Ningbo

Ningbo

Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...

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Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

 province, China

China

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. Founded in 1898, Ningbo Middle School is among the best provincial middle schools. It has been acknowledged as the first modernized government-run boarding high school in Ningbo. It is a modern experimental school in education technology and one of the hundred provincial schools emphasizing science and research.

The junior part of Ningbo Middle School was departed from Ningbo Middle School in the spring 2000 due to complicated political reasons.
The departed junior school was then named as XingNin Junior school. Though being literally independent from the old Ningbo Middle School, XingNin school still shares most of its faculties and facilities with the Ningbo Middle School

Facts and figures

• Location: Higher educational park, south of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China
• Size: 18.9 hectares of campus with a built area of more than 60,000 square meters
• Equipment: Well-equipped under the criteria for national model high schools
• Current principal: Mr. Li Yongpei, a physics teacher
• Goals: To shape first-rate management, to cultivate star teachers while pursuing top teaching quality, and to promote the school's renowned image.

School motto

• Self-discipline
• Self-reliance
• Self-improvement
• Carrying out self-awareness, scientific spirit and humanitarian accomplishments

Renowned graduates

More than 50,000 students have graduated since 1898, a few well-known include:

Members of Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering

• Ding Feng (冯定， 1921)
• Kai Yan (严恺， 1929)
• Meie Ren
  Ren Mei'e
  Ren Mei'e , was a famous Chinese geomorphologist, geologist, marine and coastal scientist, educator and professor, who was the main founder for the study of many related subjects in modern China.-Biography:Ren was born in Zhenhai County , Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in 8 Sep 1913.In 1934 Ren...
  
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• Zhongci Shi (石钟慈， 1951)
• Yangyuan Wang (王阳元， 1953)
• Xianshi He (贺贤土， 1957)
• Songlie Yu (余松烈， 1935)
• Hui Zhuang (庄辉)

Notable alumni

• Shaofeng Hua (华少峰， 1924-1925), Former President of Shandong University
• Menghai Sha (沙孟海， 1919), Artist
• Wenhan Sha (沙文汉， 1923), Former President of Zhejiang Province, China
• Wenwei Sha (沙文威， 1922), Former VP of political association of P.R. China
• Yao Zhou (周尧， 1920s), Distinguished Professor in entomology
• Zhongshu Wang (王仲殊， 1940), Archaeologist
• Xuanzong Fu (傅璇琮， 1951), President of Zhonghua Publishing
• Miaolong Zhu (竺苗龙， 1961), Former President of Qingdao University
• Heqi Zhang (张和祺， 1954), President of CAS (Chinese Academy of Science) astronomical observatory
• Tianzeng Ni (倪天增， 1956), Former VP of Shanghai, China
• Zulun Shen (沈祖伦， 1947), Former President of Zhejiang Province, China
• Bulei Chen (陈布雷， 1906), Politician
• Qiyun Zhang (张其昀，1919), Historian,Geographer,Educationalist,Politician
• Yujie He (何育杰， 1898), Physical scientist