The most beautiful cause under the sun - The story of Zheng Qi, a model teacher

Author: People's Press
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Publish Date: 2005-11-30
Features: Comrade Zheng Qi was originally a teacher at Jinggang Primary School in Miaoren Town, Dangyang City, Hubei Province. In nearly fifty years, he has tirelessly devoted himself to rural education, selflessly contributing to the cause, achieving extraordinary accomplishments in an ordinary position, and becoming a model and of noble teacher ethics. To further promote the national teacher ethics publicity and education campaign and foster a positive social atmosphere of learning from models,, and respecting teachers, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Education, the Communist Youth League Central Committee, and the Hubei Provincial Committee of the CPC recently organized a reporting team to share Comrade Zheng Qi's advanced deeds. The team conducted tours to various places, eliciting strong responses from teachers, students, and all sectors of society. Comrade Zheng Qi's exemplary deeds once again remind us that our teaching staff is a trustworthy team and a particularly capable team for battle. Especially among rural teachers, under difficult conditions and harsh environments, they hold lofty aspirations, find joy in hardship, silently dedicate themselves, and diligently work, devoting their youth to the next generation and the future of the motherland. Many of them have spent their prime years to the white-haired stage, with their lives dedicated to education without cease, embodying the character and demeanor of people's teachers. They fully deserve the glorious title of people's teachers. Comrade Zheng Qi is an outstanding representative among them. A hundred years of planning, education is fundamental; in the grand scheme of education, the foundation lies in teachers. To develop the cause of education, we must wholeheartedly rely on the teaching staff and resolutely build a strong people's teaching team. Teachers, students, and comrades, let us hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Important Thought of "Three Represents," under the leadership of General Secretary Hu Jintao, and inspired by the noble spirit of exemplary teachers, vigorously strengthen the construction of the teaching staff, care for and promote the healthy growth of minors, and strive to achieve people's satisfaction in education and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!