Hebei Tangshan Foreign Language School

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Hebei Tangshan Foreign Language School
河北唐山外国语学校
Address
189 W Beixin Ave

Tangshan, Hebei

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Former nameTangshan No. 8 Middle School
Type Middle school
Established1955
PrincipalYongli Yang
Faculty350
GradesJunior, High
Number of students4000+
Website Official webcite

Hebei Tangshan Foreign Language School, formerly Tangshan No. 8 Middle School, established in 1955, is a public middle school in Tangshan, Hebei, China. In 1996, the school started to be the first foreign language school in Hebei, named "Hebei No. 1 Foreign Language High School". In 2002, the school changed to the current name. [1]

Tangshan Prefecture-level city in Hebei, Peoples Republic of China

Tangshan is a largely industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. It has become known for the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, flattening much of the city and killing at least 255,000 residents according to official estimates. The city has since been rebuilt, has become a tourist attraction and has among the 10 largest ports in China.

Hebei Province

Hebei is a province of China in the North China region. The modern province was established in 1911 as Zhili Province or Chihli Province. Its one-character abbreviation is "冀" (Jì), named after Ji Province, a Han dynasty province (zhou) that included what is now southern Hebei. The name Hebei literally means "north of the river", referring to its location entirely to the north of the Yellow River.

China Country in East Asia

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities, and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

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Curriculum

The school started English, Japanese and Russian classes at the time it transferred to be a language school. Currently it has established relationships with schools in the United Kingdom, Japan, Austria, Belarus and Singapore. [1]

English language West Germanic language

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Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Japonic language family, and its relation to other languages, such as Korean, is debated. Japanese has been grouped with language families such as Ainu, Austroasiatic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance.

Russian language East Slavic language

Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although nearly three decades have passed since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia.

The school has established a GAC teaching center to provide students with access to foreign universities. [1]

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The school participates the AFS Intercultural Programs, exchanging students annually from/to the United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia, etc. The school has established Confucius Institutes in sister schools in Lincoln, England and Minsk, Belarus. The school was rewarded the 2010–2011 International School Award. [1]

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Germany Federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe

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United Kingdom Country in Europe

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Lincoln Christs Hospital School

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