Guangzhou Yuexiu Foreign Language School, Language education center in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, China
Guangzhou Yuexiu Foreign Language School was a public full-time secondary school in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, formed from the 1948 Private Zhongxian Middle School founded in the Jian ancestral temple on Panfu Road. Its South Campus, the junior section, stood below Yuexiu Hill facing the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, with the Sanyuan Palace to its south. The North Campus, the senior section, occupied the former Guangzhou University Experimental Middle School site at the foot of Yuexiu Hill.
The school was founded in 1948 during China's post-war educational reforms. It quickly became a major center for foreign language education in Guangzhou and continues to shape language teaching in the city.
The school's name, Xiuvai, comes from Yuexiu Foreign Languages. It taught English as the first foreign language and Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Korean as second languages, with plans for Portuguese, Arabic and Russian. Its alumni include singer Roman Tam, a 1960 junior-high graduate.
The school had two campuses: the South Campus at the foot of Yuexiu Hill, east of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and the North Campus on the slope of Yuexiu Hill near Guangzhou University. In 2018 it was reorganised into Guangdong Experimental High School Yuexiu School, and the former North Campus was transferred to Guangzhou No. 7 Middle School in 2019.
The school taught six languages: English as the first foreign language, plus Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Korean as second languages, with plans to add Portuguese, Arabic and Russian. Its South Campus stood below Yuexiu Hill, facing the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, beside the Taoist Sanyuan Palace.
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