In order to speed up the development of the school, the Municipal Education Bureau decided to turn Xining No.13 Middle School into a high-quality brand school. The concept of "student-oriented, teacher first" has laid the characteristics of school development; "Student-oriented education" is the strategy to realize the idea of running a school; "Strong internal quality, external image, rigorous management and pioneering and innovative" are the management objectives of the school; Mindfulness, enlightenment, fitness and perseverance are the educational and teaching goals of the school, and making the school a paradise and spiritual home for students is the pursuit goal of the school. Implement the "Five Teachers and Four Elegances" project ("Five Teachers" means "casting teachers' morality, cultivating teachers' style, correcting teachers' style and practicing teachers' strength"; "Siya" means "elegant temperament, elegant manners, elegant speech and elegant clothes"); It has effectively promoted the growth and development of teachers.

In teaching and scientific research, the school has strengthened the professional training of teachers, set up a "teaching theory forum" and a "teachers' reading salon room", increased inter-school exchange and learning, and strived to create research-oriented teachers.

People-oriented is the characteristic of students majoring in school management. Standardize students' gfd and establish a "clean government examination room"; Students' clubs such as literature club, calligraphy club, animation and painting club, basketball club, choir and student radio station have been established, which embodies the concept of students' participation in school management. The setting of the student civilization supervision post highlights the participation consciousness of "the school is for me and I am for the school".

In addition to national and local courses, in order to highlight the characteristics of the school, tap the potential and develop intelligence, school-based textbooks such as A Book of Chinese Studies, An Introduction to Middle School Regular Scripts and A Book of Middle School Students' Mental Health have been compiled, and school-based courses such as Go, Calligraphy, Mental Health, Chinese Studies Reading for 5 minutes and Dance have been set up, and a choir for middle school students has been established on behalf of Xining Education Bureau.

Since March 2009, the school has implemented the "student-oriented education" advocated by Guo, a professor of South China Normal University, a doctoral tutor and a director of Guangdong Education Association. The school has now become the first national experimental base and school of "student-oriented education" in northwest China.