Sichuan Province Beichuan High School (S: 四川省北川中学, T: 四川省北川中學, P: ''Sìchuān Shěng Běichuān Zhōngxué'' "Beichuan Middle School", SCSBCZX) is a secondary school located in Yongchang,

Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County (; Qiang: Juda Rrmea nyujugvexueaji xae) is a county under the jurisdiction of Mianyang City in northern Sichuan province, China. It is located in an ethnically diverse mountainous region of Sichuan. Its Chinese n ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

History

Prior to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, the school had 2,800 students and teachers. As a result of the earthquake, over 1,000 deaths occurred at the school.Xiong, Qu (Editor). Translator: LOTO.
New Beichuan high school -- The start of new hope
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. May 9, 2011. Retrieved on May 17, 2013. Construction began on the new school campus, located in Yongchang, on May 12, 2009. The 200 million yuan campus opened before September 1, 2010. Most of the funding came from corporations and organizations in China and from other countries. The

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Campus

The campus area has a floor area of . The campus includes a three-story academic building. Xiong Qu of

said that the school building "has strong characters of the Qiang Nationality." Xiong wrote that the buildings could withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake. It can house up to 5,200 students.Hunt, Andrea.
New Term Begins at Beichuan High School
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''. September 2, 2010. Retrieved on May 17, 2013.

Demographics

As of May 9, 2011 the school has 2,600 students in 53 classes.

References

External links

Beichuan High School
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