Mr. Zheng Bocong, the first principal, founded his alma mater with the heart of cultivating talents for his hometown. Long years, changes, hardships, forging brilliance. Yuyang Middle School has developed from a small town school with only a few teachers and nearly 100 students to a third-class standard school with 132 teaching staff and about 2,000 students. Up to now, the school has trained more than 20,000 graduates, which embodies the countless efforts and wisdom of generations of Yuyang people. Since its founding, overseas Chinese have devoted themselves to education, and generously donated more than ten buildings, including Science Building, Yuyang Building, Library, Auditorium, Jiahua Building, Yahua Building, Quan Song Building, Tingming Building, Audio-visual Education Building, Bocong Gymnasium, Longshun Building, Hua Fu Building, Dedication Building and Student Apartment. Mr. Zheng, a patriotic overseas Chinese, also founded the Zheng Bocong Scholarship Fund. So far, patriotic overseas Chinese have donated nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars for education.
Among them, the Longshun Experimental Building donated by patriotic overseas Chinese leaders Mr. Zheng Nianjin and Mr. Zheng Niangeng is magnificent and fully equipped. The computer room, language lab, labor technology classroom and multimedia classroom in the building all meet the requirements of first-class standard schools. The school has an independent library, covering an area of 909 square meters, and the existing special stacks are 469 square meters, which greatly exceeds the requirement of covering an area of 4 square meters per thousand volumes, with 1 electronic lesson preparation room. Music room, art gallery and gym are all available. No matter the teaching quality or the educational environment, Yuyang Middle School is in the forefront of general complete middle schools in Fujian Province.
Over the years, the school has won many awards such as Wang Danping Education Award, plaque and gold medal awarded by the provincial people's government, and "civilized schools" in cities and counties. In recent years, the school has achieved excellent results in the college entrance examination. In 2004, in the "five rates" of Fuqing junior high school quality evaluation, the school was commended by the Education Bureau for its "three rates" (comprehensive rate, timely graduation rate and improvement rate), and at the same time, the school was rated as an advanced unit of school quality in early 2004. In 2005, the school was rated as an advanced unit of education in Fuqing city; In May, 2005, Fujian Provincial Department of Education approved the school as a "provincial third-class standard school". In addition, the school has also won the honorary titles of "Fuqing Legal Publicity and Education Advanced Collective", "Fuqing School Safety Advanced Unit", "Youth Science and Technology Advanced Unit", "Fuzhou Popularization Experimental Teaching Advanced Unit", "Provincial General Middle School Examination Advanced Collective" and "Fuqing Four-star Branch School". At the same time, under the strong training of teachers, national (first-and second-class) athletes, students who won the second prize in calligraphy and fine arts countries (second-and third-class) and the first prize in provincial scientific and technological creation also stood out. Fujian and other propaganda organizations reported on the school's running situation respectively, and received good social effects. In 2006, Yuyang Middle School was approved by the Provincial High School Admissions Office to become the test center of Fuqing College Entrance Examination. All the achievements have been affirmed and recognized by the superior leaders. Looking back, thinking of the source and making progress. Yuyang Middle School is starting a new round of entrepreneurship, and all our administrative leaders, teachers and students are working hard together. In order to meet the needs of education development in the new century, with the strong support of overseas Chinese and the concern of leaders at all levels, the school has continuously accelerated the pace of software and hardware construction and strived to achieve the "second-class standard school" in the province.
"It is a long way to go to benefit the descendants of Sangzize and create brilliance together". Yuyang Middle School will warmly welcome students from all directions and friends from all over the world with open arms. Pave the ladder of progress and success for them and hold up a round of tomorrow's sun.