Haimen Dongzhou Primary School was built in 1992, covering an area of 43 mu, with 48 classes and 80 teaching staff. In just 13 years, Dongzhou Primary School has jumped from an ordinary suburban primary school to a high-standard modern school renowned in the education field. Strolling around the campus, trees are shaded and flowers are clustered, and young vitality and vigor are everywhere.

Since the establishment of 1992, the school has successively built Zhixue Building, Zhixing Building, Science Building, Children's Palace, Intelligent Building, Wisdom Building and 11th Floor Education Building, established Dongdong TV Station and Dongdong Research Institute, and equipped with activity bases such as language lab, multimedia computer room, scientific discovery room, labor technology room, science and technology museum, gymnasium, library and global village.

The whole campus has built a fully digital campus network with Gigabit optical fiber as the backbone, and more than 300 terminals are connected to every classroom, office and activity room on campus, forming a new intelligent campus platform for education, learning and scientific research with the organic combination of networking, digitalization and informationization.

Under the leadership of former president Xu Xinhai and current president Zhu, the school started with the study of open education in primary schools, with the educational concept of "making our curriculum suitable for every student, not making students suitable for our curriculum" and the service concept of "touching students every day", and moved from "openness, comprehensiveness and activity" to "culture, wisdom and faith", and now it has entered a new life. The school has successively won the honors of Jiangsu Experimental Primary School and National Modern Educational Technology Experimental School, and published 1 1 kinds of school-based courses such as Life Today and Walking into the Language Forest. There are 2 special-grade teachers, 6 Nantong-level academic leaders, 2 backbone teachers, and 19 Haimen-level academic leaders and 20 backbone teachers. The results of curriculum reform are impressive both inside and outside the province. There have been educational delegations from Korea, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Yunnan, Shanghai and other parts of the world. The school has successively won the honors of Jiangsu Experimental Primary School and National Modern Educational Technology Experimental School, and the achievements of curriculum reform have been recognized by the world.

In the experiment of "new life education", Dong Xiao put forward the ideal of "making every teacher and student like reading, art, sports and practice". Focusing on the healthy development of students' morality, constructing an effective operation system of new moral education; Taking students' subjective learning ability as the goal, construct a new classroom implementation model; Based on the psychological state of students and teachers, the strategy of building a new system. At present, Dong Xiaoren is practicing new education, creating a new life and enjoying a new life.