Mogang is a major town in Kachin State in northern Myanmar, located in the south of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State. It is not only the hinterland of Myanmar's jadeite mining area, but also one of the Chinese settlements. Where there are Chinese, there is Chinese education. Over the years, the local patriotic overseas Chinese have overcome many difficulties to establish a Chinese school. Not only has Chinese been passed on among Chinese descendants, but at the same time, people of all ethnic groups have the opportunity to learn Chinese. Many people learned about Chinese culture.
The school, formerly known as Zhenhua Primary School, was founded in 1956 and was co-convened by a number of overseas Chinese. In 1964, schools had to be temporarily closed and suspended owing to changes in the local situation, and the premises had been rented and expropriated by local Myanmar schools. It was not until 1967, after another consultation, that Mr. Li Hongxin, a local overseas Chinese, promised to fund a new school in exchange for a gift to the local education department as a new Myanmar school that the matter was resolved and the school resumed teaching.
The school has a total of 17 teachers, including 1 expatriate teacher from the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, 3 volunteer teachers from the Confucius Institute Headquarters(Hanban), and 13 local teachers. Among them, 10 local young teachers are studying at Mandalay Yunhua Normal University with the support of the school board. From kindergarten to junior high school, there are a total of 321 registered long-term students, including more than 130 foreign students (Dai, Jingpo, Burmese, and India).
Before, the school had preschool classes, elementary schools and junior high schools. The main target of preschool classes is younger children, or groups with Chinese learning at the beginning stage. There are five courses in Pinyin, Chinese, Mathematics, Writing and Painting. The courses offered by the elementary school from the first grade to the sixth grade include Chinese, mathematics, Chinese, handicrafts and music. Among them, the first grade and second grade also have pinyin classes and sentence making classes. Composition classes are added from the third grade to the sixth grade. For the third grade and fourth grade students, the teacher only requires them to write complete paragraphs, and the fifth and sixth grade students begin writing training. There are seven courses in junior high school: Chinese, history, geography, mathematics, English, composition and computer. The establishment and arrangement of Chinese courses gradually developed and matured from the initial exploration and exploration. The school stipulates that the teaching time of Chinese and Chinese in each class cannot be less than 7 class hours. The study time of students is mainly concentrated in March-June every year and Saturday every week. The rest of the time is due to go to Burmese school to study, so the teacher's teaching time and the student's study time are relatively small.
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