During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, Gaoping City implemented the strategy of "Science and Technology Developing the City", built the Science and Technology Spark School, developed 22 products with independent intellectual property rights, and the added value of high-tech industry accounted for more than 15% of the industrial added value.
As of the end of 2011, Gaoping City **** has 163 primary and secondary schools, of which 32 are general secondary schools, with 37,995 students, 13,595 graduates, and 11,601 enrollments; 127 elementary school of various types, with 32,882 students, and 4,783 enrollments, with a 100% enrollment rate for school-age populations, and with a consolidation rate of five years for elementary school and a retention rate of three years for junior high schools. The retention rate is 100%. Gaoping No.1 Middle School is a model school of moral education in Shanxi Province and a model high school in Shanxi Province; Gaoping No.2 Middle School is a model high school in Jincheng City. By the end of 2009, there were more than 300 cultural and sports teams, such as dance teams, rice-planting song teams, pipe bands, gong and drum teams, taiji teams, gate teams, and octavo clubs, etc., and more than 2,000 cultural households with specialties such as photography, paper-cutting, cloth art, and root-carving, as well as more than 30 associations for various kinds of sports and cultural activities in Gaoping City. Provincial intangible cultural heritage projects reached 10, "Gao Ping embroidery" rose to the national level to protect the project.
Gaoping City, in-depth excavation of unique folk crafts, the formation of black pottery, embroidery, computer digital painting, silk tapestry, peasant girl thousand layer bottom cloth shoes, face sculpture, paper-cutting, root carving, and a large number of cultural products, emerged a number of characteristics of the Shennong ceramics, Grier silk, red Ping embroidery, tapestry, such as the West River cultural enterprises. The annual China Gaoping Yandi Farming Culture Festival has become a brand of Gaoping's festivals.
Gaoping City has also launched a large number of masterpieces. By the famous Chinese musician Yang Ming music, lyricist Shi Shunyi lyrics Gaoping city song "Gaoping is my home" in the city's urban and rural areas are widely sung. Has been jointly filmed with the CCTV "my father and my mother", "Auntie", "or that love", "mine chief", "women in the black gold", "red window flowers - white snowflakes", "seven-year itch" and other film and television drama. People's Theater Troupe's modern Shangdang Opera drama "Red Belt" with the theme of safety education won the Excellent Drama Award of Shanxi Province's "Five-One" Project; Gaoping Shangdang Opera Troupe's historical drama "The Case of the Golden Hairpin" won the thirteenth Apricot Flower Award of Shanxi Province; The Gaoping Drum Book "Valley Good" rehearsed by the Cultural and Industrial Troupe participated in the seventh Chinese Opera Festival; the modern opera "Xigou Daughter" rehearsed by the People's Theater Troupe of Shangdang Bangkok was selected by the Ministry of Culture as the National Excellent Modern Opera Exhibition Repertoire in 2011, and was also identified by the Ministry of Culture as an excellent drama to the 18th National Congress in 2012, and was identified by the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee as an excellent drama for honesty and integrity education.
By the end of 2011, Gaoping City*** had 705 standard sports venues and 685 non-standard sports venues, with a per capita sports venue area of 1.52 square meters.
Sports lottery sales in 2011 reached 7.6 million yuan.
(Source of some pictures in the album "Style of Culture and Sports":) At the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan, all 13 township health centers in GaoPing City have reached the standard of first-class hospitals, and all the villages have built health centers, which have all reached the standard of class A. Basically, it has realized the goal of "keeping small illnesses out of the villages, medium-sized illnesses out of the townships, and big illnesses out of the city". As of the end of 2011, Gaoping City, medical and health institutions at all levels **** there are 535, hospitals and health centers with 1006 beds, medical and nursing and other professional and technical personnel 2,542, more than 10,000 yuan of medical equipment 372 (pieces).
Gaoping City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a second-class A-class Chinese medicine hospital, is the largest in Shanxi Province, a county-level Chinese medicine hospital. It has large-scale modern medical equipments such as American GE whole-body spiral CT machine, digital X-ray camera (CR), C-arm X-ray machine, digital gastrointestinal machine, electronic gastroscope and electronic intestinal microscope, etc. It is a designated medical institution for urban workers and residents' medical insurance and new rural cooperative and industrial injury insurance.