Tongxin County is located in the arid zone of central Ningxia, where the local Hui population accounts for more than 80%, and it is one of the concentrated contiguous poverty-stricken areas in China.
"High-quality education to help the poor is an important way to block the intergenerational transmission of poverty. A child admitted to a university may drive a family out of poverty after graduation. " Wen Ding, director of the Education Bureau of Tongxin County, said that in addition to subsidizing poor students, the local government also organized teachers to participate in the "National Training Program" and other national trainings, actively strengthened ties with excellent schools in Jiangsu, Shandong and other places, carried out teacher training ranging from 15 to 60 days, and trained 34,000 teachers successively, introducing a number of advanced educational management concepts.
"In the past, some teachers were lazy and the pace of work and study was slow. After going to the eastern provinces and regions for exchanges, the teachers found that the local students studied hard and the teachers' diligence was beyond imagination. " Ding, vice president of Huimin Middle School in Tongxin County, said that after returning from training, some teachers began to reflect on the educational gap between local and developed areas and led teachers around them to carry out educational and teaching research, which brought greater vitality to this school with 2 100 students and 156 teachers.
Due to the lack of relevant teachers, English teaching in primary and secondary schools in poor mountainous areas in central and southern Ningxia is very difficult. Tongxin County cooperated with the School of Foreign Languages of Northwest Normal University from 20 12, and established an English teaching system and research base covering primary school to high school in Tongxin County No.1 Primary School, Hairu Girls' Middle School and Yuhai Huimin Middle School.
Tongxin county's efforts to narrow the educational gap between urban and rural areas and between the east and the west are the epitome of building a well-off society in Ningxia and even the poverty-stricken areas in the west. Liu Hui, chairman of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, pointed out that there are currently 580,000 poor people in Ningxia. According to the deployment, 40,000 people will be lifted out of poverty through education in the next five years. This means that quality education carries the well-off dream of tens of thousands of families in Ningxia.
"Education to help the poor is an important starting point to block the intergenerational transmission of poverty and improve the hematopoietic capacity of the poor. Through education to help the poor, while helping poor families get rid of poverty and get rich, we will cultivate more outstanding talents and further stimulate social vitality. " Wen Ze, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, School of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Lanzhou University, said.