History
On June 16, 1872, the True Light Academy was first founded in Shakee, and in 1913 it was moved to the current location. the Chinese Communists have taken over the school from 1949, reformed as a public school and the Primary school part was used to be named as Primary School of Renji Rd. (1951), No. 19 Public Primary school of Central District (1955), First Primary School of Taiping Street (1956), Primary School of Renji Rd. Central District (1958), Primary School of Renji Rd. Yuexiu District (1960), Ruijin Primary School of Yuexiu District (1967) and Primary School of Renji Rd. Yuexiu District (1971). Until 1996, it was finally renamed back as Guangzhou True Light Primary School.
The Middle School part combined with New Fashion Private Middle School in 1953 named as Guangzhou Long Beach Middle School. In fall of the same year, renamed as No. 9 Middle School of Guangzhou by using the New Fashion Middle School side, and the Renji Rd. side was renamed as No. 3 Middle School of Guangzhou. The New Fashion Private. formerly known as Yinghai Private Middle School in 1947 founded by a group of Teochew people. In April 1987, the High School part renamed as No. 2 Travelling Secondary School of Guangzhou, until 2000, both reused as the True Light Long Beach Middle School of Guangzhou.
In 1954, the Renji Rd. Side was renamed as Guangzhou No. 22 Middle School and during the 1976 was moved to Hongde Rd., Haizhu District once and being back by September 1981, in the duration, the location was used for Guangzhou Foreign Language School.
In 1984, it was named back the Guangzhou True Light Middle School. In 2002 and 2007, The Guangzhou True Light Middle School has rebuild the connection with the True Light Middle School in Hong Kong.
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