Huangshi No.8 Middle School is the cradle of talent training. Every year, students who enter famous universities in the whole province and the whole country are among the best in the city, and have been rated as advanced units in education and teaching quality by Huangshi Education Bureau for many times. The school pays attention to students' comprehensive quality and personality development, encourages students to innovate, explore, question and forge ahead, and becomes a model school for promoting quality education in the city. Persisting in running a school with characteristics is an important measure to promote Huangshi No.8 Middle School to a prestigious school. The seven characteristics of the school are "middle school mathematics experiment teaching", "information technology education", "English 24-character teaching experiment", "middle school Chinese self-study counseling", "developing youth car model science and technology activities", "youth basketball" and "middle school students' chorus", which was approved by the Ministry of Education as the experimental base of middle school mathematics experiment teaching materials. It has become an advanced unit of information technology education promotion in Hubei Province, an experimental base of People's Education Electronic Audio-visual Publishing House, a national cooperative school of educational resource library construction research project awarded by the Office of the National Education Science Planning Leading Group, and an online teaching experimental base awarded by People's Education Publishing House. It has become a distance education demonstration school affiliated to Peking University and Tsinghua University, a traditional basketball school in Hubei Province and a training base for middle school students' choirs in Huangshi City. It has been awarded many honors such as Top 50 Comprehensive Schools in Hubei Province, the first batch of experimental schools for educational reform in Hubei Province, and civilized units in Hubei Province. The school also successfully held the World Chinese Youth Model Contest and the 2005 National Sailing Model Championship.

Brilliant honor comes from scientific management. Over the years, No.8 Middle School has been adhering to the school-running philosophy of "laying a foundation for students' lives", following the school motto of "doing hard work and being happy to learn", taking the education that people are satisfied with as its purpose, practicing pragmatic education around the goal of "running famous schools, producing famous teachers and educating celebrities", and under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, it has taken solid steps step by step towards the national famous schools.