How Steel is Made

Author: Ostrovsky
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: To comprehensively improve the Chinese literacy of primary and secondary school students, enhance the modern awareness of Chinese teaching, and vigorously promote new learning methods, the Ministry of Education issued the "Full-time Compulsory Education Chinese Curriculum Standards" and the "General High School Chinese Curriculum Standards" as core content of the basic education curriculum reform in 2001 and 2003, respectively. The "Chinese Curriculum Standards" serve as the basis for teaching, assessment, and examination question setting, as well as the foundation for national curriculum management and evaluation, reflecting the fundamental requirements of the state for students at different stages in terms of knowledge, skills, processes, and methods. Compared to the original "Chinese Teaching Syllabus" for primary and secondary schools, the "Chinese Curriculum Standards" have made significant revisions to the specific titles of extracurricular reading materials in the original syllabus and stipulated the total amount of reading required for students at different stages, urging primary and secondary school students to read widely. For this purpose, we have compiled and published this series of "New Curriculum Standards Chinese Reading Series," with all book titles designated by the new standards. To assist students in reading, we have included a preface introducing the relevant information about each classic in front of every book, providing an in-depth yet accessible overview. This book is based on the author's personal experiences and tells the story of how the protagonist, Pavlo Korchagin, closely linked his personal fate with the October Revolution, praising his noble spirit of opposing oppression, bullying, and bureaucracy, enduring hardships, being loyal to duty, and bravely sacrificing himself for the public interest without complaint.