Qingdao No.9 Middle School has 60 classes and plans to enroll 3000 students. It is equipped with teachers and teaching abilities in seven foreign languages, including English, Japanese, French, German, Korean, French, Spanish and Arabic, and has nearly 20 resident foreign teachers.
Since the school was founded a hundred years ago, it has trained a large number of outstanding talents for the country. There are senior academicians of the two academies, including Wang Daheng of China Academy of Sciences, Qu Qinyue of China Academy of Engineering, Chen Bingcong, Gao Congyong, Xie Lixin and other scientific and technological pillars, as well as leaders of the party, government and army at all levels, theorists, military strategists, sports experts and artists, such as Pang Xianzhi, director of the Literature Research Office of the Central Committee, Lin Zongtang, former aerospace minister, Gao Xiaoyan, a famous calligrapher, Yu Ji, a famous poet and Cui Wei, a famous film actor.