Jiangshan High School

Secondary school in Zhejiang, China

Zhejiang Jiangshan High School (ZJHS,[1] simplified Chinese: 浙江省江山中学; traditional Chinese: 浙江省江山中學; pinyin: Zhèjiāng Shěng Jiāngshān Zhōngxué, JSZX, "Zhejiang Provincial Jiangshan Middle School") is a secondary school located in Jiangshan, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Its origins are in a government-operated academy of classical learning established in the year 1737, during the second year of the rule of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.[2] The current Jiangshan High School was founded in 1938. The Jiangshan Foreign Language School is affiliated with Jiangshan High School.[1]

On July 6, 2013, 29 students and 5 teachers from Jiangshan High School were on board Asiana Airlines Flight 214, traveling to a summer camp at West Valley Christian School in Los Angeles, when the aircraft crashed at San Francisco International Airport. Three Jiangshan students died in the crash.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Welcome to Jiangshan High School." (Archive) Jiangshan High School. Retrieved on July 7, 2013.
  2. ^ "学校简介." (Archive) Jiangshan High School. Retrieved on July 7, 2013. "浙江省江山中学源于1737年（清乾隆2年）创建的官办文溪书院，[...]"
  3. ^ "Asiana crash deaths ID'd as 2 Chinese teens." USA Today. July 7, 2013. Retrieved on July 7, 2013.
  4. ^ "Biographies of 3 Chinese SF airliner crash victims." Associated Press. July 15, 2013. Retrieved on July 19, 2013.

Further reading

  • "[http://zjnews.zjol.com.cn/05zjnews/system/2013/07/29/019497571.shtml 亚空难追踪 叶梦圆 王琳佳 刘易�今天回家了]." (Archive) Zhejiang News (浙江新闻). July 29, 2013.

External links

  • flagChina portal
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  • (in Chinese) Jiangshan High School
  • Jiangshan High School (Archive)

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