Zhang Guimei's motto is: I was born a mountain, not a stream. I want to overlook the mediocre ravine on the summit. I was born an outstanding person, not a dirt. I stand on the shoulders of great men and despise humble cowards. As the motto of a girls' high school, this passage is so heroic and inspiring. Inspire female high school students from one session to another to walk out of the mountains and change their destiny.

The story of Zhang Guimei, the headmaster of Huaping Girls' Middle School, touched many people. She has worked hard for decades to establish the first free high school for girls in poor mountainous areas, so that more than 1700 girls in mountainous areas can walk out of the mountains by their own efforts and have the opportunity to receive national higher education.

Zhang Guimei has successively been rated as a national advanced worker, a national top ten model teacher's morality, a national top ten outstanding female figure, a national top 100 outstanding mother, a national top ten intellectual woman and an outstanding member of Yunnan Province, and won the National May 1st Labor Medal, the first Yunnan Talent Award and the Yunling Pioneer Medal. In 2007, he was elected as the representative of the 17th Party Congress.

On June 29th, 2020, Zhang Guimei Education Fund was established in Lijiang City to support the healthy and sustainable development of Lijiang Huaping Girls' Senior High School, the construction of school infrastructure, and some study and living subsidies for students.

2021Feb 17, was named "Touching People of China in 2020"; On February 25th, he was awarded the honorary title of "National Model of Poverty Alleviation"; On June 29th, Zhang Guimei was awarded the "July 1st Medal" by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and delivered a speech at the ceremony of awarding the "July 1st Medal". August, 20021,participated in the third season of the variety "The Reader". 20211month, won the honorary title of national moral model.