Mingde Middle School was founded in 1903 with a history of more than 100 years. It is one of the earliest middle schools in Hunan Province. Mr. Hu Yuanxian, the founder, is a famous educator in modern China. Mingde has a glorious revolutionary tradition and rich experience in running a school. Mr. Huang Xing, the founder of the Revolution of 1911, Chen Tianhua Yao Hongye, a revolutionary martyr, Ren Zhou Ouyang Qin, a proletarian revolutionary, Vice Chairman the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) and many other people with lofty ideals worked, studied or engaged in revolutionary activities in Mingde successively. Chen, a veteran of the Kuomintang, also studied in Mingde. In different historical periods, Mingde has trained a large number of outstanding talents for the Chinese nation, including 22 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, which is known as the "cradle of academicians". As early as 1930s, the reputation of "Nankai in the north and Mingde in the south" spread all over the education circle in China. After the founding of New China, Mingde Middle School has been further developed. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, the school has entered a new period of development. 1980 was re-established as a provincial key middle school and a provincial traditional sports school (men's basketball team) by the Hunan Provincial Department of Education. 1995 passed the acceptance of the provincial education commission and officially hung the plaque of "Key Middle School in Hunan Province". The campus is located in Xiangchun West Road, adjacent to the Xiangjiang River scenic belt, covering an area of 40,000 square meters and a building area of 30,000 square meters. The campus layout is complete and the planning is reasonable. Chengde Building, Dacai Building and Lechengtang have their own characteristics and are integrated into one. Lecheng Hall, the central building, was built in 1932, which is the earliest cement frame building in Changsha. In 1988, it was overhauled as it was, and it was majestic. In the same year, it was revoked as Mingde Science Museum. The Huangxing Library, built in 1993, has a building area of 2 100 square meters, which is elegant and spectacular, and is the best among middle school libraries in the province. The library can hold up to 300,000 books, which can accommodate six classes of students. The 800-square-meter art museum is well-trained in calligraphy, painting and literature. The statues of Hu Yuanxian, Huang Xing and Zhou are admired by later generations. The school is shaded by trees, with ponds, gardens, fountains and lawns. Beautiful environment and pleasant scenery. The Science Museum is fully equipped with physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, language laboratories and technical classrooms. The whole school has built four systems: color TV center control system, computer network system, intra-school communication system and principal's office, which provide good conditions for cultivating students' all-round development, giving full play to their specialties and further study. The school playground is spacious, with 8 basketball courts, 4 volleyball courts, gymnasium, track and field and football field, which is a good place for teachers and students to exercise.
The faculty of the school is neat, including a group of old teachers who have been engaged in education and teaching for many years and a group of young and middle-aged backbone teachers. They work hard in the cause of teaching and educating people, striving for first-class results, and some of them have also won the honorary title of outstanding teachers in the country and provinces and cities. In recent years, under the leadership of provincial and municipal education committees, Mingde Middle School has adhered to the socialist school-running direction, implemented the principal responsibility system, comprehensively implemented the party's education policy, strived to improve the teaching quality, and formed school-running characteristics, which has made great achievements. The school adheres to the tenet of putting moral education first and teaching and educating people first, with good school spirit, standardized management and orderly teaching, and has been rated as an advanced unit of spiritual civilization construction in Changsha for many times. Every year, a large number of students are rated as "three good students" and "excellent league members" by provinces, cities and schools. Alumni at home and abroad have established five scholarships, which are awarded at the end of each year. Mingde's sports art education is very distinctive. The traditional sports men's basketball team is very famous both inside and outside the province. The men's basketball team has won the provincial and municipal middle school students' basketball championship for more than 40 times, and has participated in major national competitions on behalf of Hunan Province for many times, and achieved good results. School Flower Art Troupe, Folk Band, Dance Team and Sound Band all achieved excellent results in provincial and municipal competitions. The school has also established a large number of extracurricular activity societies, such as English Radio Station, Quzihu Literature Society, Harmo Group and Biological Specimen Making Group. Under the leadership of the Party Committee, many youth party schools have been established. In recent years, a number of party member have been developed among middle school students. /kloc-Since 0/00, Mingde Middle School has trained more than 50,000 students. Facing the new century, Mingde Middle School, as a famous school in Sanxiang, will surely step up to a new level and make greater contributions in order to create a national key middle school and promote quality education in the new historical period!