Shi Jing University Hall was the highest institution of learning in China at that time, and it was also the first highest educational administrative organ in China. It functions as the Ministry of Education and is responsible for national education. According to the articles of association of Shi Jing University, its school-running policy is "middle school as the body and western learning as the application". After the "1898 coup", the Boxer Rebellion, Eight-Nation Alliance's occupation of Beijing and other changes, Shi Jing University Hall was repeatedly destroyed and closed.

1902, the Qing government rebuilt Shi Jing University Hall, offering two courses: crash course and preparation course. 1862 Shi Jing wentongtang, which was founded during the westernization movement, was also merged into the university hall. In the same year, the Teachers College of imperial academy and Shi Jing University was established, and the Teachers College was Beijing Normal University.

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The background of the establishment of Shi Jing University Hall;

1862, the Qing government established Shi Jing Wentong Museum in the Prime Minister's Office. The establishment of Wentong Museum is the beginning of the establishment of a new school in China. Since then, the Qing government decided to establish an arithmetic museum to study astronomy and arithmetic. The establishment of Wentong Pavilion is the beginning of China's establishment of a new school. Shi Jing Wentong Museum is the first modern institution of higher learning in China.

1In August, 895, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao organized a "strong society" in Beijing, bought books, collected newspapers and periodicals for the masses to read, and often held meetings to give lectures, discuss academics, criticize current politics, publicize and introduce the social and political theories and modern scientific knowledge of the western bourgeoisie, encourage people to learn from the West, and train talents based on the principle of applying what they have learned, so as to finally achieve the goal of national self-improvement.

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