Established in 1905, Chengdu No. 7 High School is a nationally renowned co-educational high school celebrating both academic excellence and individuality. It is a forerunner in secondary education reform with increasing international influence and rich experience in curriculum reform. The cultivation of top-notch innovative talents, educational modernization and internationalization has brought the school into the national limelight. The school covers an area of 39 acres with two campuses serving 6000 staff and students from Junior One to Senior Three (Grades 7 through 12) currently.
Chengdu No. 7 High School grew out of the Chengdu Primary School, which was founded in 1905 when two centuries-old academies of classical learning were combined. In 1907, the school was renamed the Middle School of Chengdu County. The school was given the current name of Chengdu No.7 High School in 1952 and has continued to build on its long legacy. Chengdu No. 7 was granted 「Key Secondary School of Sichuan Province」 status in 1978 and was honored by China’s Education Ministry as a 「National-level Model High School」 in 2000. In 2014, the name "Chengdu Middle School" was bestowed on Chengdu No. 7 High School to honor its history with the city of Chengdu.
With outstanding academic achievements and good social reputation, the school has won many honors and titles. It is the recipient of the National Labor Medal, the National Top Ten Science and Technology Education Innovation School, the National Top-notch Innovative Talents Training Base School, the National Civilized Campus and the National Volunteer Service Demonstration High School.
Ever since its foundation over a hundred years ago, Chengdu No.7 High has maintained its time-honored tradition of inspiring, student-centered teaching based on meticulous planning and research. We encourage our students to meet challenges through the development of individual strengths and abilities. Student ownership of the educational process and the development of the student as a whole is a primary goal. Chengdu No.7 High School strives to balance rigorous standards in a nurturing environment for all students in the aim of laying the foundation and paving the way for future innovators and leading talents. Vigorously pursuing the education value of 「nourishing individuality with humanity」, the school is devoted to fostering China’s backbone talents with global vision, groundbreaking programs and progressive ideas offered to students.
The Chengdu No.7 High School staff consists of devoted and seasoned professionals who also have years of experience in providing the highest quality of education. Hundreds of them have been honored and sought after by educational authorities of national, provincial and municipal levels for their outstanding contributions to the mission of the school and their dedication to the cause of education.
In the 1980s, Chengdu No.7 High School was one of the first to enrich the standard curriculum with a complete portfolio of electives and organized supplementary activities. Currently, more than 100 electives are offered to students each semester. These are designed to stimulate intellectual independence and curiosity as well as to develop critical and creative thinking. The courses pave the way for students to deepen their knowledge in specific disciplines. More than 40 student clubs and societies provide students the means to pursue their passions and develop personal abilities that complement and transcend the formal school curriculum. The school's Model United Nations Association, Future Leaders Club, Robotics Team, Students Orchestra, Volleyball team, and Football team are among the best in western China. No.7 students have earned numerous awards such as the Vex Robotics World Championship, the National High School Students Leadership Championship, and the Grand Prize at National Financial Literacy Competition, to name a few.
We measure our performance by the success of our graduates who have been scaling the heights of success around the world and in every field imaginable.
Many of them have made contributions to their areas of expertise and are now leaders in their fields. Here are a few of our successes:
--Nine alumni have been elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and/or the US National Academy of Engineering.
--Eleven have won gold medals at the International Olympiads.
--Six of our students have had minor planets named after them by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in recognition of their outstanding performance in Intel ISEF, the world’s largest international pre-college science competition.
Other notable alumni include:
--Li Daokui, Economist, Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management.
--Zhang Wei, recipient of the 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (named after the world-renowned mathematician Srinavasa Ramanujan) for outstanding work in mathematics.
--Li Feifei, Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Vision Lab, Vice President and Chief scientist of Google Cloud.
--Wang Xiaochuan, Computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sogou Inc., one of China’s top Internet search engine and leading Artificial Intelligence company.
--Chen Rui, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bilibili, China's leading video broadcasting portal and animation streaming platform.
--Zhou Tao, Director of the Big Data Research Center and a doctoral supervisor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, a leading figure in the big data industry.
--Yang Luhan, Biologist, Forbes 2014 30 under 30 in Science and Healthcare, Co-Founder of eGenesis, a life sciences company whose mission is to transform xenotransplantation into an everyday, lifesaving medical procedure.
--Tang Shuang, MIT, the co-developer of Tang-Dresselhaus Theory, a methodology for studying narrow-band low dimensional materials systems. This is the first theory in physics that describes how to construct various Dirac-cone materials, and Dr. Dresselhaus presented their groundbreaking theory to President Barack Obama during a White House briefing in 2012.
Every year, More than 200 graduates from Chengdu No.7 High School enroll at many of the world’s most prestigious universities. Over 50 students head to Peking University and Tsinghua University, China’s top 2 higher education institutions. In 2018, 145 students received first prize in National Science Olympiad Competitions.
Today, Chengdu No.7 High School has become a big family which already owned 14 member schools. The school has not only achieved widespread accolades and prestigious academic rankings, but also contributed greatly to equitable access to high-quality education in China. No.7 High’s Distance Education Cooperation Program provides an avenue to quality education to students from less affluent areas and allows them to participate in our classes in real time. To date, the program has been instituted in eight provinces and Chongqing Municipality in southwest China with more than 238 member high schools, 1,194 classes and 76,000 students from ethnic minority areas participating in the program, which empowers them with quality education together with peers at No.7 High every day.
Chengdu No.7 High places great importance on developing its students' sense of global citizenship. The annual exchange program between No.7 High and Jenks High School in America has been running smoothly for 15 years. In recent years, the school has established sister school relationship with Charlemagne High School in Aachen, Germany, Beaver Country Day School in Boston, America, École Jeannine Manuel School in Paris, France. Our programs propel students towards the acceptance and understanding of an array of different cultural and community perspectives through communication in today’s globalized world.
Due to the emphasis on rigorous preparation and high achievement as well as the global perspective, many students have pursued their educational dreams with full scholarships at prestigious overseas universities such as Yale, Harvard, MIT and Princeton.
To broaden the horizons of students and staff, many world-renowned experts, including Nobel Prize Laureates, NAE academicians, and guest scientists and artists are invited to the school to speak or perform on a regular basis. In recent years, the school has been visited by Nobel Laureates such as David Gross and J. Michael Bishop, academics like Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Professor at University of Oxford, and influential people such as former U.S. first lady Ms. Michelle Obama.
The staff and students at Chengdu No.7 are proud of their rich history and heritage of achievement and academic excellence. We know that the most promising discoveries for global challenges lie ahead. We are not complacent with our current results, we seek to constantly improve in every aspect. Combined with a devoted instructional staff and leadership, we know this commitment to students will allow Chengdu No.7 High School to continue to lead the way in the 21st century and transform lives through the power of education.