Before 1978, Xinfeng County pre-school early childhood education is quite backward, in addition to the county town has a kindergarten, in the townships and the vast countryside, pre-school early childhood education is basically "blank".
In the spring of 1979, Shijiao Commune Wenyi Primary School through the opening of pre-school classes, the first to solve the problem of local preschool education for the popularization of rural pre-school education provides a precedent. The county education department summarizes and promotes the experience of Wenyi elementary school, the rural elementary school to open preschools, popularize early childhood preschool education to make deployment, and from the funds to give some support, so that rural preschools can develop rapidly. By 1980, the county's rural elementary school set up 65 preschools, enrolling 1,725 children. Since then, after years of development, in 1990, all towns and villages in the county elementary school **** run 161 preschools, enrollment of 4808 children, accounting for 48% of school-age children.
In the rural pre-school at the same time, in order to adapt to the needs of urbanization and development, to solve the problem of pre-school education for young children in the county and market towns, the county government, on the one hand, to raise funds to expand the first kindergarten in the county (the original kindergartens in the agency), the new second and third kindergarten; on the other hand, to encourage and support private individuals to open kindergartens to speed up the pace of universal pre-school education for young children in towns. By practicing the two-legged approach, by 2005, the county kindergartens increased from 1 in 1979 to 20, of which 2 are county-run, 6 are town-run, and 12 are privately-run, with 2,986 children enrolled, accounting for more than 97% of the school-age children in the towns. At the same time, the kindergarten teaching team is also in the development of growth and improvement, in 2005, there are 170 kindergarten teachers in the county, most of them have been educated as kindergarten teachers. Before 1979, there were 175 elementary school in urban and rural areas of Xinfeng County, and the enrollment rate of school-age children reached 97%, basically universalizing primary education. However, due to the influence of the extreme "left" trend of thought, there were widespread problems of shortening the school system (5-year system), weak teachers, chaotic teaching order and low quality of education, which affected the normal development of primary education.
After 1980, the order of schooling was gradually standardized through the introduction of corrective measures: restoration of the six-year school system, abolition of the junior high school classes attached to elementary school, so that schools could concentrate on the implementation of primary education; adoption of the national textbooks, standardization of the curriculum for elementary school; resumption of the examination system, so as to encourage students to improve their self-consciousness in learning; and removal of decentralized teaching points, so as to improve the quality of classroom teaching. Through the above measures, the county's primary education has changed the "scattered, chaotic and poor" situation in the past, and gradually restored the normal teaching order. Subsequently, combined with the implementation of "universal nine" education, the county education department in the school building renovation and construction, enrichment and strengthening of the teaching force at the same time, and further adjust the layout of the elementary school, has the 34 students less, poor foundation, weak teacher strength of rural elementary school (teaching points) withdrawn and merged into the neighboring elementary school, so that the layout of the rural elementary school is becoming more and more reasonable, the teacher strength has been strengthened. After achieving the standard of "universal nine" education in 1996, the education department put the transformation of weak rural schools and the construction of standardized schools on the agenda in due course, and carried out the transformation of 45 weak rural elementary school, so that through the transformation of these weak schools, the backwardness of these schools was gradually changed, and standardized school running was realized, and the "universal nine" education standard was consolidated. consolidating the achievements of "universal nine" education. After many adjustments and mergers, in 2005, there were 125 elementary school in the county***, with 1,385 teaching staff and 25,599 students enrolled, with an enrollment rate of 99.8% for school-age children, a dropout rate of 0.12%, a graduation rate of 99.98% for elementary school, an enrollment rate of 98% for junior high schools, and a completion rate of 99.3% for 15-year olds, all higher than the rate set by the "universal nine" education regulations. The completion rate of primary education for the 15-year-old population was 99.3%, all higher than the indicators set out in the "universal nine" education regulations. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Central ****, through the unveiling and criticism of the extreme "left" trend of thought, to set things right, the county education department in accordance with the county party committee, the county government's deployment of secondary school education to carry out drastic adjustments and reforms. All of the 123 elementary school attached to junior high school classes, 3 junior high schools attached to senior high school classes, and the layout of the secondary school to adjust, including Shatian Junior High School, Horse Head Junior High School, Meikeng two, as well as Liangba attached to the middle school, Meiliao attached to the middle school and the town high school. 1992 to stop Fengjiao High School, Shatian Middle School, Horse Head Middle School high school, and changed into a junior high school; 2000 to abolish the middle school of Xinfeng a middle school, stop the junior enrollment, expand high school enrollment, and changed into senior high school. enrollment, expanding high school enrollment, changed to senior high school. So far, the county **** set up 13 middle schools, including 3 in the county, townships 10. Through the adjustment and merger, so that the layout of the middle school is becoming more reasonable, the integration of educational resources, and promote the improvement of teaching quality. Comprehensively restoring the secondary school "three-three system", in strict accordance with the "Syllabus" set the curriculum, the arrangement of class time, and to overcome the difficulties of the shortage of teachers, resumed or opened the English language teaching, to ensure that students complete secondary school on time and in accordance with the quantity and quality of education. Strengthen the construction of secondary school teachers, on the one hand, to encourage and support serving teachers to participate in various types of training, further education, and strive to improve the teaching capacity; on the one hand, actively introduce highly educated teachers from abroad, to enrich the secondary school teaching staff, has recruited more than 20 graduates of teacher training colleges and universities in Jiangxi and other places to teach in the first and second secondary schools, so that secondary school teachers to meet the standard of academic qualifications gradually increased. And constantly increase investment, comprehensively improve the teaching conditions of secondary schools. 1985, has 15 secondary schools for renovation and expansion, improve the infrastructure of secondary schools and teaching equipment configuration, of which, Xinfeng a middle school, the second middle school to achieve multimedia teaching. In addition, actively carry out teaching reform, comprehensively promote quality education, by inviting in, going out, learning from overseas advanced teaching experience, encourage and support teachers to carry out teaching and research activities, and promote the improvement of teaching standards.
Over the past 20 years, in all aspects of *** with efforts, Xinfeng County, secondary education is becoming more standardized, the quality of teaching improved significantly. 2005, the county's 13 middle schools have 827 teachers, 224 junior high school classes, 12,310 junior high school students; 40 senior high school classes, 2,716 senior high school students. In the national middle school students' subject knowledge competition, 49 people have won prizes, including 3 first prizes, 10 second prizes and 36 third prizes. What is more encouraging is the improvement of the overall quality of students, in which the enrollment rate, consolidation rate, completion rate, graduation rate of junior high school education, since 1996 has been maintained at more than 98%, consolidating the results of "universal nine" education. High school education is a year a step, every year a big step, since 2000, the college entrance examination results year by year a substantial increase in the number of candidates to reach the college admission line were 154 people in 2000, 216 people in 2001, 371 people in 2002, 567 people in 2003, 2004, 701 people in 2005, 802 people, and from then on to change the long-standing high school entrance examination results in Xinfeng County, the situation of low, crossing the city into the city's high school. The situation of low, crossing into the city's advanced ranks. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the ***, in order to adapt to economic and social development, the county party committee, the county government to do a good job of vocational education into the county's education development plan, and increase the investment in vocational education, support vocational schools to do a good job of building school buildings to improve the conditions of schooling, and enrich the teachers, and gradually realize the standardization of schooling. County Teachers' Training School since 1978, has enrolled 10 kindergarten teacher classes, 591 people; general teacher classes 5, 282 people; teacher classes 9, 589 people; elementary school teachers continuing education training classes 1682 people; primary and secondary school teachers computer training courses 2306 people. County Health Further Training School since 1975 since the enrollment of the community, to 1982 **** there are three two-year trainees in school to complete their studies; 1983 after the cessation of enrollment, the shift to on-the-job medical personnel training and further training, to 2004, **** 2-year system of Chinese and Western medical doctors, nursing classes, rural doctors class 15, training of various types of medical personnel 519 people, and 1089 people (times) in-service medical personnel and village doctors were enrolled in the school to receive short-term training. County Agricultural Technical School was reopened in 1983, has opened rice cultivation, forestry, agriculture, horticulture, agricultural and sideline product processing, agricultural machinery, business management and other professional classes, to 2002 **** enrollment of 710 people for the community, for the development of Xinfeng rural economic development has trained a number of primary professionals.
In 2002, in order to integrate educational resources, improve the quality of vocational education, and promote the standardization of vocational education, orderly development, the county party committee, the county government decided to the county radio and television university xinfeng branch, the county teacher training school merger, the implementation of the two brands, a set of people, mainly responsible for the county primary and secondary school teachers for further training, as well as tertiary education personnel training. At the same time, the abolition of the county agricultural technical schools and adult secondary schools, re-organization of the county secondary vocational and technical schools, through the merger and integration, teacher training, television and vocational secondary school school conditions for further improvement, teacher strength has been enriched to improve. County secondary vocational and technical schools in August 2003 officially opened, 3 years of schooling, the implementation of full-time standardized teaching, the year of enrollment of junior high school graduates of more than 800 people, opening CNC machine tools, mold design and manufacturing, computer network technology applications, electronic and electrical technology, automotive application and maintenance, accounting and finance, as well as secretarial, early childhood education, etc.. School 3 years, the school adhere to the direction of schooling, and with the Pearl River Delta a number of large-scale enterprises to establish long-term cooperative relations, the implementation of the school combined with the school, training both theoretical knowledge, but also good at practical operation, to adapt to the needs of modern enterprises and the development of society's practical talents. 2005, in Shaoguan City, organized by the labor department of the qualification examination of a number of professions, the school's students qualified rate of 100%. 2004, the school was classified by the Provincial Department of Education as one of the best schools in the world, the school has been the first to be awarded the title of "the best school". The school was listed as one of the province's 100 backbone demonstration secondary vocational schools by the provincial Department of Education. In 1978, there were more than 12,000 illiterate and semi-literate young adults in the county, accounting for 14.1% of the population of the same age.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the ****, workers and peasants culture and education was put back on the agenda, in early 1979, the county workers and peasants education committee was established, by the county party committee in charge of literacy and education work as a director of the Standing Committee, the commune, brigade has also set up a corresponding leadership organization, a main leader of the division of labor to grasp and draw 881 cadres from the county, the commune, the brigade, the formation of literacy task force to go to all parts of literacy work, taking a task to people, layer by layer, the literacy work. The work was carried out by task-to-task, layer-by-layer approach, with local schools as the positions, organizing large-scale literacy campaigns again. By the end of the year, 11,901 illiterate and semi-illiterate young adults in the county had become literate, accounting for 91% of the illiterate and semi-illiterate population, thus becoming a "literacy-free county" once again, and receiving awards from the Department of Education of Guangdong Province and the Guangzhou Municipal Government. In the towns, the Workers' Amateur Evening School (renamed the Workers' Amateur Intermediate Cultural and Technical School) was re-established, and the "Double Complementary" education (i.e., junior high school culture tuition and elementary skills tuition) was widely carried out for the workers, and more than 1,400 workers were educated through the "Double Complementary" education, and the majority of them obtained the "Double Complementary" qualification. The majority of the 1400 workers who passed the "double supplement" education obtained the "double supplement" certificate.
Based on the completion of the rural literacy and workers' "double supplement" education, the adult education for workers and peasants was shifted to professional skills training in due course. In the countryside, through the organization of farmers' cultural and technical schools, the organization of farmers to learn agricultural scientific and technological knowledge, to receive training in labor skills, to improve the scientific farming skills of farmers in the countryside, and to enhance the adaptability of the employment of migrant workers, from 1992 to 2005, the county has 56,234 people (times) in the farmers' technical school training, so that the majority of farmers' cultural and technological qualities are constantly improving. In the towns, the staff adult secondary school as a position, through the opening of secondary school classes and a variety of professional skills training courses, so that 362 employees to complete secondary school education, more than 80 employees to complete college education, 956 employees received professional skills training in the education system.
In the mid-1990s, with the reform of state-owned and collective enterprises, in order to improve the re-employment capacity of laid-off workers, organized by the county labor department and the county federation of trade unions, free of charge for the enterprise laid-off personnel to hold various labor skills training, has opened electricians, computers, housekeeping services and other training courses, so that more than 2,800 laid-off workers through the training to improve the ability to achieve re-employment.
In order to improve the level and level of adult education, in 1985, the opening of Radio and Television University Xinfeng Branch, to 2004, has opened 11 professional disciplines, enrolled 1,741 trainees, of which 1,680 people have completed their studies, obtaining a college diploma. In addition, since 1984, the county education department organizes and implements the higher education self-study examination, until 2005, more than 3,000 people (times) have participated in the self-study examination in the county, of which 2,560 people have got the certificate of bachelor's and specialist's graduation. Yunbun Mountain is a provincial wildlife nature reserve with an area of 9 square kilometers, and the main peak is 1,438 meters above sea level, which is the first peak around the Pearl River Delta, and is a good place for hiking and watching the sunrise. Characterized by green ecology, it is a tourist resort integrating leisure and vacation, sightseeing tour, mountaineering and adventure. It is mainly divided into five functional areas: Foothills Resort Area, Mountain Sightseeing Area, Hot Springs Recuperation Area, Fairy Lake Tourism Area and Yuanyang Lake Recreation Area. The area is rich in tourism resources, with a skillful combination of mountains, rocks, water, forests, rocks and springs, and numerous attractions. There are many attractions, such as lion looking back, naive elephant saluting, golden tortoise pilgrimage, heavenly dog guarding the Euphrasia, mother and child elephant, five-fingered stone, sleeping beauty, etc.; water features include bamboo shadow and clear wave, the source of Xinfengjiang River, Liuyun Flying Waterfall, Jianlong Waterfall, Qinglong Waterfall, Xianhu Lake, Yuanyang Lake, hot springs, etc.; and there are caves such as Longyan, Yangzhou Alley, Xiangongyan and etc. The hot springs under the mountain are medical care and health care facilities. The hot springs under the mountain are health care hot springs, containing fluorine, silicon, potassium, magnesium and other trace elements beneficial to the human body. The scenery of the four seasons has its own characteristics, which can be summarized as the four words "wind, flowers, snow and leaves"; enjoy the mountain flowers in spring, get the breeze in summer, watch the maple leaves in autumn, and step on the ice and snow in winter, "wind, flowers, snow and leaves" are all in one mountain. Especially before and after the Qingming Festival every year, you can enjoy the Harvest Flower everywhere. Harvest flower is a national second-class protected plant, which has both medicinal value and ornamental value. It is rumored that only vines that are more than 30 years old will blossom. "A vine into a scene, a thousand vines in spring, a hundred birds return to their nests, ten thousand birds roosting branches", from a distance, such as kingfisher rolling in the forest, close to see is the silver flowers entangled in the trees according to the vine, is the portrayal of the grasshopper flower.
The Xinfeng River Source Waterfall with a drop of 128 meters, and the waterfall rock engraved next to the Chinese Calligraphers Association Chairman Shen Peng inscribed "the source of the Xinfeng River," the five big words reflect, spectacular. Located in Ma Tou Town, Tan Shi Village, National Highway 105, 12 kilometers from the county town, is Xinfeng well-preserved Hakka house, the house for the Wen's ancestral property, one of the founders of the Wen Nengwan in the Qing Jiaqing years had served as Guangdong Buzheng Minister of the Secretary of the Department of the reason to ask (from the sixth, in charge of investigating the name of the penalty), its characteristics can be summarized in four words: ancient, big, expensive, Wen.
Ancient: the house was built in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi early (1662), to the Qing Jiaqing six years (1801) was completed, which lasted 139 years, the contractor craftsmen throughout the four generations of grandchildren for its construction, more than 200 years ago.
Large: the enclosure area is large, building land **** more than 70 acres, of which the enclosure in front of the pool covers an area of more than 3 acres. There are 9 houses built with 18 patios, 36 living rooms of different sizes and more than 160 rooms. At its peak, it housed more than 300 people from 70 households.
Gui: building all the important parts, all with stone, stone, stone embedded masonry: hall door frames, thresholds all with lapis lazuli inlaid mosaic; patio, gable steps with long stone inlaid edges; building windows with large lapis lazuli chiseling and carved with images of dragons and tigers, around the corners of the walls are embedded in the edge of the large lapis lazuli; the main door and the main door in the three buildings on both sides of the front porch, are two large lapis lazuli as a pillar, the bottom plate with a stone base, appearing to be a high The main gate and the front porch on both sides of the main gate of the middle three buildings are all made of two large boulders as pillars, with stone seats on the bottom plate, making them look tall and imposing. Because of the lack of local stone, all the stone is carried from the field, which can be seen the cost of expensive. Brick masonry is very careful, all the halls used in the wall brick masonry, are to be manually polished, the provisions of each person is allowed to grind only 3 pieces per day.
Wen: from the building's books, paintings, plaques, you can see the owner of the high cultural attainments and connotation. The main hall hanging above a gold horizontal plaque - Zhuwutang, see the owner's mentality and far-sightedness; the center of the building on the door hangs "three generations of six products" gold plaque, the plaque in the winter of the Qing Jiaqing 25 years (1820) by the Guangdong Minister of the Wei Yuan Yu on behalf of the imperial court to the performance of the government, the government of Guangdong, the government of Guangdong, the government of Guangdong, the government of Guangdong, the government of the Guangdong Province. Outstanding Wen Neng Wan. In the center hall, there is a gold plaque with the words "By Royal Decree of Heaven" hanging on the beams. In the main hall, gold wooden frame carved dragons and phoenixes, the left side of the picture is: according to the Department of the officials on patrol; right side of the picture is: the scholar returned home, the crowd of long dragons, the front and back of the embracing, blowing, bustling, spectacular momentum; both sides of the compartments with the screen instead of the wall, each screen engraved with landscapes, flowers and birds, people in relief, vivid and realistic. The threshold of the main door is engraved with a picture of colorful steeds. Wanmu Manor is located at the junction of Shuangliang Village and Changpi Village in Fengcheng Town, 3 kilometers away from the county town. It is a tourist attraction integrating tourism and sightseeing, leisure and vacation, farmhouse and shopping. 4500 acres of more than 10 excellent varieties such as Malaysian poplar peaches, Australian red-fleshed plums, Taiwan sweet and crisp peaches, Dongkui plums and red crisp pears are planted in the field.