Chenghe County ancient education flourished in the Song Dynasty. During the Xuanhe period, the county lieutenant Zhu Song first Xingxi Shuyuan and Yungen Shuyuan; his son Zhu Xi, a great scientist, took advantage of the opportunity to visit the tomb of Zhenghe, often live in the Yungen Shuyuan lectures, and thus has a "sage over the countryside of the chemical" of the reputation. The county book room, social studies, academy, palace and other education system is perfect, successive generations **** there are 17 jinshi, 52 people. At the end of the Qing Guangxu, the school has been reorganized as a small school. Republic of China in 7 years (1918), the county urban and rural areas have 25 primary school, Jiandong Normal School opened in the county. Republic of 10 years (1921), Zhenghe Junior High School was founded. Republic of 17 years (1928), Peishu girls elementary school was founded. Subsequently, the lack of education funding, school stops running, to 1949, the county has only 11 primary and secondary schools, teaching staff 30 people, 263 students. After the establishment of new China, the party and the people's government attach importance to the development of education, to 1978, the county's primary and secondary schools, 448, teaching staff 1767, 33,799 students. 1990, the county has 45 kindergartens, 129 classes, the kindergarten children of 2256 people, enrollment rate of 36.04%, the teaching staff of 183 people; 128 complete elementary school, elementary school, 232, 23,621 students, teaching staff 14,621 people; the elementary school students and staff of 14,621 people, the school staff of 14,621 people. 23,621, with 1,490 teaching staff; 2 complete secondary schools, 7 junior high schools, 7,324 secondary school students, 516 teaching staff; 1 vocational high school, 148 students, 7 teaching staff. Every 10,000 people in the county has 375 students in school, enrollment rate of 99.21%, literacy rate of 96%, the education penetration rate of 98.58%. 1977 to 1990, the county to send college and university freshmen 843 people, junior college freshmen 1,582 people. 1982, college and secondary school correspondence broadcasting and television university, self-study exams, junior colleges and secondary schools and adult secondary school successively opened. 1990, the number of students at the university of electricity 139 people, the number of self-study exams 301 people, the county to implement nine years of compulsory education.
Chenghe County, the ancient circulation of Chinese medicine, medical prescription passed down from generation to generation. Qing Dynasty, there are a number of Chinese medicine practitioners set up in the county to open a Chinese medicine store, three in the Guangxu period. During the Republic of China period, there are more than 30 Chinese medicine stores in the county. Republic of 15 years (1926), Western medicine and Western medicine began to enter the political and. Republic of 27 years, the county health center opened western medicine clinic, until the eve of liberation, Zhenghe western medicine and western medicine are very few. 1949, the county has only one health center, the hospital staff 5, only 1 western physician. After the establishment of new China, the county in 1958, the initial formation of the county, townships, villages, three-tier medical network. In that year, the red star people's commune herbal medicine research station to collect folk herbal medicine single test secret formula more than 300, organized and compiled into a book, praised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1990, the county has a hospital, hospitals, health epidemiological station, maternal and child health care, health education, family planning service center, townships have health centers, villages have health centers. The county had 388 hospital beds and 487 medical personnel. Medical equipment include high power microscope, large X-ray machine, A type B type ultrasound, electrocardiogram, gastroscope and so on. Endemic and infectious disease prevention and control is remarkable, 1951 plague epidemic terminated, 1952 smallpox was eliminated, 1953, cholera cut off, 1977 blood filariasis was basically eliminated. 1980 after diphtheria, leprosy, dysentery and other infectious diseases basically under control.
Chenghe is a small mountainous county with a small but celebrated history. Song dynasty students Chen Chao Lao, Ming vice ambassador Chen Huan, etc., quite worried about the country and the people's heart, willing to live in poverty, for the country for the people of the petition Chen Yan is unshirkable. Song State Prison priest, Longtuge straight bachelor Shao Zhirou, a lifetime in charge of teaching national education, teaching the East Palace, but can be clean and temperate, for people to marvel at. Huang Hua, the leader of the Yuan peasant revolt, and the two children of the Ming anti-Japanese army, etc., who sacrificed their lives for the people and were at home in death, were indeed rare talents in the ancient times. *** member of the party Yang Zeshi, Chen Guifang and other revolutionary predecessors, for the people to turn over the liberation of the masses, born into the death, bowing and exhaustion, death, and after themselves, more glorious.
Zhenghe County is a natural disaster-prone poverty-stricken areas, civil society since ancient times, social warehouse, warehouse, orphanage, baby-sitting hall and other relief charities. The more famous ones in the Qing Dynasty were the Dongping Social Warehouse, the Orphanage in the west of the city, and the Baby-sitting Hall in the east of the city. After the establishment of new China, the county people's government allocated a large amount of funds and materials, disaster relief and poverty alleviation, the establishment and improvement of all kinds of social security organizations and systems. 1990, there are 9 townships in the county social welfare foundations, raising funds of 500,000 yuan, used for poverty alleviation and support for the poor, disaster relief and poverty alleviation and assistance for the disabled, etc.; the county has townships of 8 homes for the elderly, the village of 2 homes for the elderly, the county-run orphanage of a county-run orphanage, county-run orphanage of 6.
In the development history of Zhenghe County, from the establishment of new China in 1949 to 1990, it is the fastest 41 years of political, economic and cultural development in the county. The county people in the county party committee, under the leadership of the county people's government, the poor and backward old Zhenghe construction has become the initial prosperity of the new Zhenghe.