Zhang Guimei's name is now a household name. But she is still the same every day: a small horn keeps holding her hand and urging students to get up, study and sleep. "I am a mountain village teacher. It is my initial intention and mission as a people's teacher and a teacher to change the fate of children with knowledge and send them out of the mountains. " Zhang Guimei said.

"I want to do something for Huaping"

"As long as I have breath, I will stand on the podium, do my best, give everything and die without regret." At the ceremony of awarding the July 1st Medal, Zhang Guimei raised his voice when he spoke this sentence.

Speaking of the fate with Huaping, Zhang Guimei choked: "The original idea was to repay kindness." /kloc-at the age of 0/8, Zhang Guimei came to Yunnan from Heilongjiang to support the frontier. After graduation, I went to normal school and came to Dali to teach with my husband. After her husband died of illness, Zhang Guimei left Xizhou Town, Dali on 1996 and transferred to Huaping Central Middle School in Lijiang, where the conditions were relatively poor.

1April 1997, Zhang Guimei was seriously ill. For fear of delaying the graduation exam, she put the diagnosis in the drawer and endured severe pain until she sent the students to the examination room. In those difficult days, Huaping gave her warmth. The county launched an initiative to raise money for Zhang Guimei, and a woman living in a mountainous area donated her only 5 yuan money as a return trip.

Holding the "friendship" of the villagers, Zhang Guimei burst into tears: "Huaping gave me a second life, and I want to do something for Huaping."

Since then, life in Zhang Guimei has been linked with Huaping, education and poverty alleviation. "More than 20 years in Huaping is the best and happiest time in my life." Zhang Guimei said.

"Run a free high school for girls"

Go uphill along the south lane of Shishan on the edge of Huaping County. On the red and yellow iron gate, the slogan "Button up the first button in your life" is hung. This is Huaping Girls' High School. Since coming to Huaping to teach, Zhang Guimei has found that there are always more boys than girls in the class. Zhang Guimei believes that educated women can prevent the intergenerational transmission of poverty to a great extent. So she secretly made up her mind to "run a free high school for girls and help girls in mountainous areas." In order to raise funds for running a school, Zhang Guimei did his best.

In 2002, Zhang Guimei printed out all his certificates and put them on the streets of Kunming to "raise money". In five years, she was often misunderstood and called a liar, but she never gave up.

Until 2007, Zhang Guimei was elected as the representative of the 17th Party Congress. At a meeting in Beijing, a report on "I Have a Dream" spread her dream of running a female high school. Then Lijiang City and Huaping County each took out 6.5438+0 million yuan to help her run a school.

Today, Huaping Girls' High School has been quite influential in the local area: the online rate of one book has remained above 40% for many years, and the college entrance examination results rank first in Lijiang.

"I am very satisfied with training a group of students."

Get up at 5 o'clock every morning, be the first one to appear on campus, and visit the school at least three times a day ... Although she is 64 years old and suffers from heart disease, emphysema and other diseases, Zhang Guimei still works hard.

10 years, Zhang Guimei has gone over mountains and mountains, with a home visit trip of about 1 10000 kilometers, and received nearly 2,000 rural girls. She repeatedly persuaded her parents: "We don't charge a penny in high school, but we will help when we go to college"; She never eats in students' homes, and all the staff bring their own bread, instant noodles and mineral water. She is not only responsible for children's learning, but also always coordinates with relevant departments to help solve problems when roads and water sources are blocked.

1April, 998, Zhang Guimei gloriously joined China. In party flag, she silently promised to be like Jiang Jie. "It is my greatest honor to dedicate my youth to the party." Jiang Jie's lyrics became her belief in life.

All the teachers in the school know that she loves singing Ode to Red Plum and watching Red Rock and the opera Jiang Jie. She also brought party constitution and Hongge to school and taught them to students. Huaping Girls' Middle School has a school-wide ideological and political class once a week, and Zhang Guimei organizes theoretical study in a unified way. Zhang Guimei believes that the high school stage is a critical period for the formation of faith. The inheritance of the red gene is related to the shaping of children's hearts, which allows students to have distant lights, the road under their feet and the light in front.

"I am very satisfied with training a group of students, and they will all have a good life in the future." Zhang Guimei talked about students, showing a gratified smile. Indeed, many students in Huaping Girls' Middle School follow the example of Zhang Guimei, who can endure hardships and be willing to contribute, and bloom beautiful youth where the motherland needs it most.